NAVAL LOSSES
DETAILS RELEASED He North African Armada Statement By First Lord London, Dec. 3. Tlie First Lord of the Admiralty, MV. Alexander, has released deWb of British naval losses suffered :s escorting the great armada of % to take French North Africa. Mr Alexander gave the following '•'ails »f losses: —Two destroyers, :ae corvette, two cutters, one sloop, ' depot ship, one minesweeper, an ship, and the small airMft carrier Avenger.
jJ a destroyer of the Royal Navy was also sunk. ttl° Perations oli ' North Africa, First-Lord, had been carat risk but had re- ,;'• ln the complete deception of • e netny. t- ;^ lSh Merchant shipping losses Stjjy not be Published and the could go on guessing about i„ aD(I flying on his own false 1518 as the past.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13014, 4 December 1942, Page 5
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