An item referred to the Summary 261 dated 28 August reporting that an enemy submarine torpedoed and sunk 2 tankers 13,000 respectively 9,000 gross tons part of a convoy south of the Windward Passage. The submarine was also ill-fated being rammed and sunk. In the current month were 5 submarines in this manner destroyed during attacking convoys. Four time by a British and one by a Canadian escort vessel.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 262 dated 29 August 1942.
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