SHIP MACHINE-GUNNED.
SEAMEN’S ALLEGATIONS.
Received 1 May 4, 11.58 a.m. NEW YORK, May 3. The crew of the American freighter Flying Fish, which has arrived in New York, claimed that a British bomber’s machine-gun fire raked the Flying Fish’s deck during the battle over Bergen. The freighter Charles R. McCormick, was similarly machine-gunned. There were no casualties on either ship. The captain of the Flying Fish (Captain W. li. Wollaston) disagreed with the crew and declared that the firing came from a German-operated Norwegian battery attacking British ’planes which sank a supply ship and a cruiser.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 132, 4 May 1940, Page 7
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