ATTACKS ON SHIPS
HITS SCORED BY BRITISH AIRCRAFT OFF DUTCH & NORWEGIAN COASTS. ENEMY VESSELS LEFT SINKING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.7 a.m.) RUGBY, May 5. An Air Ministry communique states: “In operations of the Bomber Command a direct hit was obtained near.’ Antwerp on an enemy supply ship of about 1,500 tons. In the course of a daylight sweep carried out yesterday by aircraft of the Bomber Command an enemy patrol vessel was hit and left sinking. About dusk last evening, a Coastal Command aircraft on patrol bombed an enemy supply ship of about 3,000 tons off the coast of Norway and attacked other objectives in South Norway.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1941, Page 6
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