Telegram received from London on the evening of August 22nd. 1. Naval. Our aircraft on patrol Tuesday morning attacked 2 large destroyers and 1 large submarine off west coast of Denmark. The U-boat was forced to submerge and aircraft registered near misses on the destroyer which was also machine-gunned. Yesterday morning our air patrol reported an 8,000 tons transport, screened by 4 destroyers, off west Denmark; other aircraft sent to attack failed to locate this force, but bombed without definite results 4 enemy merchant vessels. One of our aircraft attacked by 7 M.E. 109's for 35 minutes, shot down one into the sea. A British cruiser was unsuccessfully bombed by the enemy yesterday afternoon in St. George's Channel; 3 trawlers were also attacked in the same locality, and one enemy machine was believed to have been hit. One minesweeping trawler was bombed and sunk off Falmouth on the night of August 20th. |