COASTAL COMMAND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1940, Page 6

COASTAL COMMAND

GERMAN U=BOAT DESTROYED IN NORTH SEA ATTACKS ON ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS. FIVE SUNK OR DAMAGED. IN SIX DAYS. A German U-boat has been attacked and sunk by a Canadian pilot of the Coastal Command, the 8.8. C. states. The action took place in the North Sea and from the course of the submarine it appeared to be returning to its base. Although exposed to the fire of the of the U-boat’s gun, the plane pressed home the attack and reached home, in spite of having been damaged. A Coastal Command aircraft scored a direct hit with a bomb on the stern of a German supply ship in Norway and a second enemy supply ship was damaged by another aircraft. In six days five enemy supply ships have been sunk or damaged by aircraft of the Coastal Command, three of them in Dutch coastal waters.

EFFECTIVE BLOWS ATTACKS ON ENEMY BASES AND SHIPS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) RUGBY, December 3. Last night Coastal Command aircraft attacked shipping off the Norwegian coast. One ship sustained a direct hit. A large explosion and fire followed the bombing of wharves at Afje Island. Yesterday a direct hit was scored on the stern of an enemy supply ship off' the Norwegian coast. Aircraft of the Bomber Command last night attacked the submarine base at Lorient. None of our planes was lost.