ABOUT 50 U-BOATS
DESTROYED !N PAST TWO MONTHS
PROBABLY ABOUT 250 SINCE WAR BEGAN. | MASSES OF ALLIED SHIPPING ] PASSING SAFELY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 20. The latest U-boat kills bring the total of U-boats destroyed in the past two months to about 50, and the total destroyed since the outbreak of the war to 250, states the naval writer of the “Daily Express.” The "latter number probably is one-fourth, or possibly onethird of the total number of Üboats built since the outbreak of war. The “Daily Mail's” aviation correspondent says an unprecedented struggle between hordes of U-boats and escort vessels and aircraft is raging almost continually, as the Allies mount a great anti-U-boat offensive The Allies are now achieving their primary aim of passing great masses of merchant shipping safely across the Atlantic The Alied merchantmen losses are now the lowest since America entered the war At least 300 U-boats are believed to be at sea almost continuously Hitler apparently is definitely committed to a great gamble on U-boats to win the war, and has permitted dangerous gaps in Germany's tank and aircraft strength in order to maintain a huge submarine force.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1943, Page 4
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