RECORD U-BOAT BAG
SIX VICTIMS PROBABLY TEN («ec. 1 p.m.) RUGBY, July 16. A United States navy message states that planes from an escort carrier attacked 11 Axis submarines while protecting two outgoing Atlantic convoys, and set a record with two U-boats sunk, four almost certainly sunk, and four probably sunk. All the convoy ships reached their destination undamaged. Forty-one prisoners were taken from the two sunken submarines. One American plane was damaged. The engagement commenced at dusk. Afterwards surface ships took up the battle throughout the night, and the aircraft resumed the attack on the submarines-at dawn.
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Evening Star, Issue 24919, 17 July 1943, Page 5
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98RECORD U-BOAT BAG Evening Star, Issue 24919, 17 July 1943, Page 5
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