WAR AT SEA
VALUABLE AMERICAN HELP EFFECT-OF OCCUPATION OF ICELAND. NAVAL FORCES RELEASED FOR BAY OF BISCAY. fl (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, August 4. One of the major reasons for the United States' occupation of Iceland was the great aid this would give to Britain in combating the U-boat menace. The weakest spot in the British defences is in the waters off the French coast along the Bay of Biscay, where the Nazis have established a number of submarine bases, says the New York “Daily Mirror.” Owing to the enormous depth of these waters it is impossible to lay anchored minefields to prevent submarines getting to the Atlantic. The only alternative was constant naval and air patrol, but Britain lacked sufficient destroyers for the job. Since the United States ’occupation of Iceland, plus a patrol between Nova Scotia and Iceland. Britain is enabled to divert sufficient war vessels and planes effectively to police the Bay of Biscay.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1941, Page 6
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159WAR AT SEA Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1941, Page 6
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