U-BOAT OPERATIONS
250 MILES UP ST- LAWRENCE RIVFR Ottawa, April 1. German submarines operated 250 miles up the St. Lawrence River near i the mouth of Saguenay, torpedoing 26 , ships and sinking 22 with vital war cargoes. All hut three of the attacks occur-1 ■. ad during a concentrated assault on j that area in 1942. Thereafter inten- i • i\e defence preparations which saw. the Gaspe Peninsula bristling with naval, ground, and aerial defences, studded with radar detection devices ' reached such a strength that there! were few attacks ]
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 78, 4 April 1946, Page 5
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