Anti-Submarine Patrol
Rec. 6.30 p.m. Washington, Aug. 29. A Navy Department official statement said the Royal Air Force and the Coastal Command are co-operating with United States naval army aircraft in anti-sub-marine operations in the western Atlantic and have already engaged the enemy. j The U-boat hunting squadron, according to the Air Ministry news service, is a crack Coastal Command squadron which is now flying Lockheed Hudsons. In the early part of the war the squadron was in France flying Blenheims on army co-operation worlc, but since the fall of France it joined up with the ; Coastal Command and made many j bombing sorties on U-boat bases on the j French Atlantic coast and also on the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau when : they were at Brest. :
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1942, Page 3
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