BIG CONVOY BATTLE
Fighting Way To Russia
LONDON, September 25. The dramatic story has now been told of the passage of the recent big Allied convoy through the Arctic to northern Russian ports. : . - The escort force lost the destroyer Somali and the minesweeper Leda, both of which were torpedoed. Two enemy U-boats were almost certainly sunk, and four others seriously damaged. Forty enemy planes were destroyed and a large number of others seriously damaged. The great majority of the British, American, and Russian ships in the convoy got safely to port. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 7
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91BIG CONVOY BATTLE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 7
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