AMERICAN SHIPS
Hit By Bullets In Battle Over Bergen NEW YORK, May 3. The crew of the American freighter Flying Fish, on arriving at New York, claimed that machine-gun fire from British bombers naked the deck of -the Flying Fish during a battle over Bergen. , , The freighter Oharles R. McCormick was similarly machine-gunned, the rigging being cut. There were no casualties on either ship. The captain of the Flying Fish, Mr. W. E. Woolaslon,' disagreed with his crew’, declaring that the fire was from a Norwegian battery operated by the Germans, who w’ere attacking British planes which sank a supply ship and a cruiser.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 188, 6 May 1940, Page 9
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104AMERICAN SHIPS Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 188, 6 May 1940, Page 9
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