An item reported that in the night of 24-25 August around 5 enemy submarines attacked a westbound convoy to the eastward of Newfounland sinking at least 4 freighters. In the current month were around twenty cargo ships of convoys between North America and the United Kingdom and around 64 ships of all convoys (including 9 of the Gibraltar-Malta convoy) torpedoed and sunk by submarines. Four other ships were torpedoed but managed to reach a harbour. It seemed that the submarines active to the eastward of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia went more south- and eastward to some degree with other submarines going to the north and middle Atlantic coast of the USA. In the west-Atlantic the number and position of the enemy submarines seemed not to change.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 258 dated 25 August 1942.
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