FIVE U=BOATS SUNK
AND THREE MORE PROBABLY DESTROYED. IN ATTACK ON BRITISH CONVOY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. July 4. Five U-boats were sunk and three others probably sunk, and many German planes were destroyed or damaged in an attack on a British convoy in the Channel, reports the Lisbon correspondent
cf the British United Press. German bombers and dive-bombers, with packs of U-boats, attacked a convoy consisting of 25 merchantmen escorted by warships and a small air-craft-carrier. Two small ships were lost and two others were damaged, but were taken in tow.
The convoy is reported to have been bound for Gibraltar with food and stores for the troops, and also to have carried a contingent of British, Canadian. and American airmen.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1943, Page 3
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