AIR ESCORT
VALUE IN PROTECTING SHIPS PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION. TWO RAIDERS SHOT DOWN. (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) LISBON. November 13._ The value of air escort for British shipping was illustrated when a convoy of over twenty steamers reached Lisbon safely, despite the fact that two enemy planes spotted it. The convoy’s escort engaged both the enemy planes and brought them down into sea before they were able to communicate the convoy's position to U-boats.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1941, Page 5
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