ENEMY SUPPLY SHIP
SUNK BY BRITISH BOMBER IN NORTH SEA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. June 22. The Air Ministry announced that a Hudson reconnaissance aircraft of the Coastal Command today attacked and’ sank a large enemy supply ship of 6000 tons in the North Sea. Three bombs were dropped on the vessel, which was heavily laden and carrying deck cargo. They scored direct hits and the ship began to sink by the stern in a column of flames. When three Messerschmitt fighters which had been escorting the supply ship came on the scene the Hudson escaped into the clouds. Later it returned and observed the German ship sinking.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1940, Page 6
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108ENEMY SUPPLY SHIP Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1940, Page 6
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