FIVE U-BOATS
DESTROYED BY COASTAL COMMAND ” 1 DURING TEN-DAY PERIOD. ALL CAUGHT ON SURFACE. LONDON, May 30. In a ten-day period, Coastal Command aircraft have sent five U-boats to the bottom, two near Iceland) one in northern waters 1 and the other two on the approaches to the Bay of Biscay. The five were caught on the surface and tried to keep off the aircraft with desperate anti-aircraft gunfire. The planes dropped depth charges and patches of oil and German sailors struggling in the water told their own story. Three of the submarines were bagged by Australian crews.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 3
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