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...Deeds. "Escort Carrier B," in four sustained engagements, attacked eleven U-boats, scored two sure kills, four "very probables" and four "probables." Her planes allowed no enemy submarine to get closer than 18 miles to the convoy. Her casualties: one TBF damaged by 20-mm. ack-ack from a U-boat, its radio operator wounded...
...July 4 this week the U.S. Eighth Air Force celebrated a technical anniversary by giving an aircraft factory at Le Mans in France its second bombing of the week ("They can just cross that factory off the list"). Fortresses also attacked airplane repair shops at Nantes and U-boat pens at La Pallice...
...Coastal Command planes then joined the escort, and one of them, a Liberator, disabled a submarine. A British destroyer and one of the new British "frigates" (somewhat similar to the U.S. Navy's new destroyer escorts) led naval aircraft to another submarine. Attacking in turn, they destroyed the U-boat. Other aircraft, including the first Fortresses mentioned in Coastal Command use, and destroyers then attacked. They may have sunk two more submarines...
...month. Exactly this had long been the goal of the anti-submarine campaign, but early this year the men in charge of the campaign did not expect to attain such a rate of destruction before 1944. If, as is generally supposed, the Germans have been building around 25 U-boats a month, the Allied bag may well have averaged one U-boat a day. Unofficial reports that the Germans lost 30 submarines were probably close to the mark...
German spokesmen told their own people that they were losing the campaign which had been touted to them as their main means of defense. Said an official Nazi organ: "However untiringly U-boats fight against American convoys* in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, it is not possible to strangle enemy supply lines." As every German knew, the chief purpose of the 1943 U-boat campaign had been to strangle those lines and thus to save the Continent from invasion...