TOLL BY RED FLEET
NAZI SHIPS OF WAR SAILORS IN LAND FIGHTS (Rdcd. Aug. 11, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 9. The Red Fleet claims that since the outbreak of the war Germany has lost 13 submarines, 10 destroyers, three patrol boats, two monitors, a trawler and over 30 transports, mostly in the Baltic. ... Soviet warships going into action in support of troops on the Baltic front bombarded and destroyed a large concentration of Germans. It was announced from Moscow on Friday that sailors of the Red Fleet had taken up positions on the Estonian front and had recaptured a villageafter a three-day battle. In their first land encounter the men of the Red Fleet marched 50 miles into action. An artillery duel preceded bayonet charges.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20630, 11 August 1941, Page 5
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