HELL FOR RAIDERS
♦ IN ATTACK ON ATLANTIC CONVOYS SOME STRIKING GERMAN ADMISSIONS. ( FORMIDABLE DEFENCES. LONDON, October 26. A dramatic account of the German difficulties in the Battle of the Atlantic, ,with, incidentally, a high tribute to the strength of the defenders, has been broadcast from Germany. The announcer said that formerly an attack on a convoy merely meant dropping some bombs and then flying back to look at the damage. Now it was more like overthrowing a line of strongly defended dug-outs with storm-troopers. The convoys were strongly protected by fast motor-boats, destroyers, and corvettes, and German aircraft met fierce anti-aircraft fire, while above a barrage of balloons flew on their treacherous cables. As the German planes attacked, a murderous fire was thrown up from every barrel of the guns, which were skilfully distributed. In the Battle of the Atlantic, said the announcer, the Germans faced their oldest enemy, who was always devising new methods of defence. The attacking planes faced an indescribable hell.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1941, Page 5
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164HELL FOR RAIDERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1941, Page 5
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