SATURATION ATTACK
GERMAN SHIPS HIT. (Roc. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 7. Flying over 350 miles from their base New Zealand and Australian Beaufighters of the Coastal Command last night launched a saturation attack against enemy shipping off Bremen roadstead, says the Air Ministry News Service. The Beaufighters pounced on four merchant vessels which were forming "up with seven minesweepers . and an auxiliary vessel of the trawler .".
type. All four merchant ships were hit by torpedoes. The auxiliary vessel received two underwater rocket hits. Flak hit the port engine of a plane piloted by Flight-Scrgt. R. S. Priest, of Pungarehu, Taranaki. but he pressed home the attack. An Australian Beaufighter and two Mustangs covered him on the homeward jou'rney on one engine.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 241, 8 September 1944, Page 5
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