DEFEAT FOR U-BOATS
(8.0.W.) RUGBY, July 17. The United States Navy Department announced that planes from an escort carrier attacked 11 Axis submarines while protecting two outgoing Atlantic convoys. They set a record with two U-boats sunk, four almost certainly sunk and four probably sunk. All the convoy ships reached their destination undamaged. Forty-one prisoners were taken from the two sunken submarines. One American plane was damaged. The engagement began at dusk. Afterwards surface ships took up the battle throughout the night and the aircraft resumed their attacks on the submarines at dawn.
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Southland Times, Issue 25709, 19 July 1943, Page 5
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