LAUNCH’S GAME FIGHT
TEN E-BOATS ENGAGED RUGBY, June 16. Riddled by enemy gunfire, a single motor launch of the Royal Navy fought off 10 German E-boats attempting to attack a convoy of landing craft carrying vital supplies to Normandy. For an hour and 45 minutes the threepounder guns of the motor launch and the Oerlikons of the landing craft replied to the formidable guns of the Eboats. In spite of these long odds only two landing craft failed to reach France. The motor launch sustained no casualties, although the craft itself was hit by shells.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25565, 19 June 1944, Page 4
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