PLANES V. U-BOATS
NEW HAZARD FOR ENEMY
Rec. 1.15 p.m. * RUGBY, March 6. The Battle of the Atlantic is becoming more and more a battle between aircraft and U-boats, and already the 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 a news 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 the dangers of surfacing.— 8.0. W. ■ " ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 56, 7 March 1944, Page 5
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175PLANES V. U-BOATS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 56, 7 March 1944, Page 5
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