HUNTING U-BOATS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20876, 31 August 1942, Page 3

HUNTING U-BOATS

CRACK R.A.F. UNIT OFF AMERICAN COAST END OF TWO RAIDERS (British Official Wireless.) (10 a.m.) RUGBY Aug. 30. The U-boat hunting squadron now operating off the Atlantic coast ol America, according to the Air Ministry news service, is a crack Coastal Command squadron which is now (lying Lockheed Hudsons. In the early part of the war the squadron was in France flying Blenheims on army co-operation work, but since the fall of France it joined up with the Coastal Command and made many bombing sorties on U-boat bases on the French Atlantic 1 , coast and also on the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau when they were at Brest. The Havana newspaper El Crisol reported that an Axis submarine had been sunk and another captured with 35 members of the crew off eastern Cuba. The United States Navy Department at Washington announced the loss of two more Allied merchantmen as a result of submarine attacks. A medium-sized British ship was lorpedoed and shelled off the north coast of South America. Eighteen members of the crew were rescued. The captain and 45 other members of the crew are still missing. A medium-sized American ship was torpedoed in the Caribbean. The entire crew was saved.