PATROL BOATS SUNK.
POSSIBLY IN ERROR. SYDNEY, March 31. Two Allied patrol torpedo-boats were sunk by air attack ofl New Britain on Monday with the loss of seven of the crews. Announcing this. Gencral Mac Art bur’s communique to-day says: “Preliminary reports indicate the possibility that friendly aeroplanes. failing to recognise identification signals, may have mistakenly attacked.”
The torpedo-boats were operating against enemy barge traffic in the north of New Britain waters. It was possible that the attacking aitci aft Were Kittyhawks or Beaufighters. In the Solomons a third patrol tor-pedo-boat was lost when operating on a special spotting mission close to Bougainville Island. Four men weie killed when a shell, probably from an Allied destroyer, struck the patrol boat.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 147, 1 April 1944, Page 3
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