NAVAL MESSAGE            NAVY DEPARTMENT
 
 
FROM      COMTASKGROUP 1.5         FOR ACTION    OPNAV URGENT
 
DATE      6 SEPT. 191
 
TOR CODEROOM      2130                    INFORMATION     CINCLANT    
 
                                                 URGENT
 
PARAPHRASED BY    GLUNT
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TEXT IN REFERENCE TO YOUR 04006.  SUBMARINE ORIGINALLY SIGHTED
     ON SURFACE AT 0707 BY BRITISH PLANE.  SUBMARINE SUBMERGED
 
     AND AIRCRAFT REPORTED POSITION TO GREER.  UNDER-WATER CONTACT
     MADE BY GREER AT 0920. MAINTAINED CONTACT.  TRAILED AND
 
     BROADCAST WARNING ON 500 KCS. UNTIL 1244.  AT 1030 BRITISH PLANE
ATTACKED SUBMARINE DROPPING 4 - 250 LBS DEPTH CHARGES WITHOUT
 
EFFECT. PLANE RETURNED TO BASE AND GREER CONTINUED TRAILING. AT
1244 SUBMARINE FIRED TORPEDO AT GREER FROM CLOSE ABOARD FOLLOWED
 
BY TWO MORE TORPEDOES SHORTLY AFTERWARD. AFTER BEING ATTACKED
GREER DROPPED 8 DEPTH CHARGES APPARENTLY WITHOUT EFFECT AND LOST
 
CONTACT.  GREER MADE CONTACT AGAIN AT 1512 ATTACKED SUBMARINE DROP-
PING 11 DEPTH CHARGES. GREER DID NOT CONTACT SUBMARINE AGAIN.  AT
 
1615 I RECALLED OUR FORCES ON REQUEST OF BRITISH WHO IT NOW DEVEL-
OPES DID NOT HAVE COMPLETE INFORMATION. POSITIVE EVIDENCE THAT
 
SUBMARINE FIRED AT LEAST 2 TORPEDOES AND PROBABLY 3 AT GREER.
FROM BEST INFORMATION AVAILABLE BRITISH PLANES AND DESTROYERS WHO
 
ARE PATROLLING AREA HAVE NOT MADE CONTACT WITH SUBMARINE SINCE
GREER DROPPED DEPTH CHARGES LAST TIME. SUBMARINE WAS NOT SEEN BY
GREER HENCE THERE IS NO POSITIVE EVIDENCE THAT SUBMARINE KNEW -