WAR ON U-BOATS
OVER 530 DESTROYED OR DAMAGED BY BRITISH AND AMERICAN NAVIES. ANNOUNCEMENT BY FIRST LORD. LONDON, October 20. Today, on the eve of Trafalgar Day, Mr A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, revealed that more than 530 Axis submarines had been sunk or damaged by Britain and the United States since the beginning of the war. This figure does not include any attacks made by the Russians or by the French before June, 1940, nor are the American figures complete. During the last war the enemy lost less than 200 U-boats.
Mr Alexander, in paying a tribute to the work of the Navy, recalled that Napoleon had said in captivity that it was the British Navy that had thwarted him at every turn. Hitler, said Mr Alexander, might well say the same when his turn came for removal. No second front would be possible unless the Allies had control of the sea as well as the air.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1942, Page 3
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161WAR ON U-BOATS Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1942, Page 3
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