ESCORT CARRIER BITER
GOOD WORK IN THE ATLANTIC (Rec. 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 10. In eight months of Atlantic convoy work not a single merchantman under the protection of the escort carrier H.M.S. Hiter has been sunk. Since April. 1913. she has steamed over 45,000 miles in the Atlantic, her aircraft patrolling convoys and ready to pounce on U-boats. To her credit she has two U-boats sunk by the combined attack of her aircraft and surface escorts,,and three probably damaged by her aircraft.
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Evening Star, Issue 25070, 11 January 1944, Page 3
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83ESCORT CARRIER BITER Evening Star, Issue 25070, 11 January 1944, Page 3
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