ATTACK ON E-BOATS
FLEET AIR ARM PLANES (Rec. 9 p.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 14. Albacores of the Fleet Air Arm, operating with the Fighter Command, discovered three E-boats (fast motor vessels armed with torpedo tubes) just off the French coast when on patrol in the Gulf of St, Malo one night last week. A pilot went in to attack in the face of flak from two of the E-boats and scored a direct hit on the leading boat. It burst into flames, which lit up the sea for at least four minutes while the pilot was making a wide sweep to observe the results.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25305, 16 August 1943, Page 3
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