BOMBED AND SUNK
GERMAN SUPPLY SHIP (News by Cable.) RUGBY, Sopt. 25. A Hudson aircraft of the Costal Command sank a German supply ship near the Frisian Islands caTly on Wednesday morning. There were three entvny vessels in a convoy. The Hudson made a dive-bombing attack on the largest one, which was leading. Three bombs made, direct hits, the ship settling by the stern when the Hudson flew away followed by anti-air-craft fire from the two other vessels.
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Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 316, 27 September 1940, Page 2
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