GERMAN SHIPS
N.Z. Coastal Flyers Join In Powerful Strikes PRE-INVASION OPERATIONS Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, May 29. Coastal Command aircraft have contributed greatly to pre-invasion operations, states the Press Association aviation writer. Rocket, torpedo and cannon-firing Beaufighters and other planes in recent weeks have co-operated in a succession of powerful strikes against the Germans' coastal shipping. The job has been carried out so successfully that the Germans' sea communications are strained to the utmost. Australian New Zealand and Canadian squadrons operating Beaufighters, Mosquitoes, Wellingtons and Albacores, have participated m the Coastal Command offensive during the last seven months. They have made 563 attacks against enemy vessels, of which at least 66 have been either sunk or damaged, while in the past three years to March, 1944, a total of 1,079,907 tons of enemy shipping has been attacked, of which 287,718 tons has been sunk.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 126, 30 May 1944, Page 5
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