SUBMARINES ATTACKED
ESCORT-CAF.UIER’S SUCCESS EIGHT PROBABLY DESTROYED (Official Wireless) (Received July 17, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, July 16 The United States Navy Department today announced that pianes from an escort carrier attacked 11 Axis submarines while protecting two outgoing Atlantic convoys and 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 two sunken submarines. One American plane was damaged. The engagement began at dusk and afterwards surface ships took up the battle throughout the night. Aircraft resumed the attacks on the submarines at dawn.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22093, 17 July 1943, Page 5
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