CANADIAN’S SUCCESS
SINKING OF GERMAN SUPPLY SHIP. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 12.43 p.m.) RUGBY, March 7. A Canadian sergeant, one of the first batch to arrive in Britain under the Empire air training scheme, today sank a German supply ship, of about 2500 tons, with a direct bomb hit on its stern.
An Air Ministry communique, recording the action states that an aircraft of the Coastal Command this afternoon sank an enemy supply ship off the Dutch coast. They also bombed the naval harbour of Den Helder, and an enemy occupied aerodrome at Ockenburg. None of our aircraft are missing from these operations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1941, Page 6
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