ATTACK ON CONVOY
ENEMY FORCES WORSTED
LONDON, July 4;
Five U-boats were sunk and threa others probably sunk, and many German planes . were destroyed or damaged, in an attack on a British convoy in the Channel, reports' the Lisbon correspondent of the British United Press. .
German bombers and dive-bombers, with packs of U-boats, attacked a convoy consisting of 25 merchantmen, escorted by warships and a small air-craft-carrier. Two small ships were lost and two others were damaged but taken in tow.
The convoy is reported to have been bound for Gibraltar with food and stores for the troops, and also to have carried a contingent of British, Canadian, and American airmen.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1943, Page 5
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111ATTACK ON CONVOY Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1943, Page 5
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