AXIS SHIPPING LOSSES
OVER NINE MILLION TONS LONDON, Aug. 8. During 46 months of the war, to June 30, 9,045,683 gross tons of German and Italian shipping were captured, sunk, or damaged by surface ships, submarines, planes, and mines, according to an Admiralty announcement. The total of German and Italian shipping captured, sunk, or damaged was increased by more than 2,867,000 tons during the year ended June 30. The Admiralty points out that the figures exclude Russian successes against the Germans and the tonnage immobilised in countries not fighting Germany. They also exclude Japanese losses.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25300, 10 August 1943, Page 3
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