RECORD U-BOAT BAG
TWO RAIDERS SUNK EIGHT PROBABLY DOWN (11 30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 16. The Navy Department announced 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 the 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. Aircraft resumed the attacks on the submarines at dawn.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21149, 17 July 1943, Page 3
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