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AFTER TWO-DAY CHASE BY AIRCRAFT. ONE AMERICAN LIBERATOR LOST. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON. October 4. A German submarine in the South Atlantic engaged five Liberators during a two-day running fight, says the Navy Department. The Liberators bombed the U-boat when they first sighted it, but it submerged. They sighted the submarine again at dawn the next day and machine-gunned it, but one plane was shot down and the crew of 12 are listed missing. Later on the 'same day the Liberators scored a direct hit and sent the submarine to the bottom.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1943, Page 3
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