JOINT ACTION
AGAINST U-BOAT ATLANTIC BASES. ANGLO-AMERICAN AIR FORCES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) RUGBY, January 24. Elements of the Anti-Submarine Command of the United States Air Corps joined with the R.A.F. Coastal Command in a combined effort to harass and destroy the U-boat fleet operating from French ports in the Bay of Biscay, according to a statement from the United States Eighth Air Force. Their part in the Battle of the Atlantic is to decimate the German submarines as the U-boats funnel back through the Bay of Biscay to refit at Atlantic ports, and to strike again when they leave to resume their attacks on merchant vessels.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 January 1943, Page 4
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111JOINT ACTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 January 1943, Page 4
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