U-BOATS BAFFLED
BY ATLANTIC CONVOY
TAKEN THROUGH SAFELY,
NOT ONE TORPEDO ATTACK BY SHADOWING PACK.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 17. Though shadowed for four days by a U-boat pack, a large Atlantic convoy arrived safely in Britain under the protection of the Royal Navy, the R.A.F. Coastal Command and United States Navy aircraft, which cooperated against the submarines so successfully that not one torpedo attack was delivered.
The safe passage of the ships is regarded by the Air Ministry as an excellent illustration of the effectiveness of air cover combined with surface escort for ocean convoys and also as an indication of the increase in aircraft range and numbers over the Atlantic.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1942, Page 3
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