NEW "HEADACHE"
Allied Device In Warfare On
Nazi Submarines
AIRCRAFT
ATTACKS
British Official Wireless
Rec. 1.30 p.m.
RUGBY, Mar. 6.
The battle of the Atlantic is becoming more and more a battle between, aircraft and U-boat, and already R.A.F. Coastal Command has killed a high proportion of the total number of enemy submarines destroyed throughout the war by all forms of attack, says an agency air correspondent.
The latest "headache" of the German U-boat chiefs, he says, is the "Leigh Light," a powerful searchlight fitted to night patrol aircraft which makes surface travel a hazardous adventure for U-boats, even in the darkness of stormy winter, nights.
More and more Coastal Command night patrols are ranging over the Atlantic for surfaced submarines and attacking them with the aid of the blinding rays of the Leigh Light, which is remotely controlled from a fuselage swivel beneath the wing until the enemy is fully illuminated.
The correspondent adds that' the battle of the Atlantic is now in a stage where the U-boat is doing little damage because of dangers of surfacing.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 56, 7 March 1944, Page 5
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