ATLANTIC SINKINGS
Decrease In Recent Months NEW YORK, August 31. The Associated Press says the Battle of the Atlantic tabulations for the past eight months show that 449 Allied and neutral ships were sunk and 3000 seamen lost and 13,810 rescued. June was the worst month, with 109 sinkings. Thereafter the figures dropped astonishingly. July saw 45 sinkings and August 23. The Navy Department announced that a medium-sized Dutch merchantman was torpedoed and sunk late in June on the northern coast of South America. The survivors were landed at a United States port.
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Southland Times, Issue 24838, 2 September 1942, Page 5
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93ATLANTIC SINKINGS Southland Times, Issue 24838, 2 September 1942, Page 5
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