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IN DEFENCE OF TWO ATLANTIC CONVOYS TEN U-BOATS PROBABLY SUNK. ALL SHIPS GET SAFELY TO DESTINATION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, July 16. The United States Navy Department announced that planes from an escort-carrier attacked eleven Axis submarines', while protecting two outgoing Atlantic convoys, and set up a record, with two U-boats sunk, four almost certainly sunk, and four probably sunk. All the convoy ships reached their destination undamaged. Forty-one prisoners were taken from the two sunken submarines. One American plane was damaged. The engagement commenced at dusk, and afterwards surface ships took up the battle throughout the night. Aircraft resumed their attacks on the submarines at dawn.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1943, Page 2
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