ALLIED NAVAL LOSSES
GERMAN COMMAND’S CLAIM LONDON, June 15 " The German High Command claims that the Luftwaffe, German Navy, and the coastal batteries since the invasion have sunk two Allied cruisers, nine destroyers, two motor torpedo boats, and 23 freighters, totalling 131,400 tons, and 12 tank landing craft totalling 18,300 tons. In addition, the Germans in. torpedo, bomb, and artillery attacks damaged two heavy destroyers, three cruisers, 16 destroyers, eight motor torpedo boats, and 58 merchantmen and transports, totalling 235,500 tons, and two landing vessels totalling 4000 tons. * Paris radio reports that Allied paratroops landed to-day in the Brest region, and adds that a number were taken prisoner.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25564, 17 June 1944, Page 5
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