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Thursday, 13 October 2022

US naval patrol aircraft probably sunk enemy submarine according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 6 March 1942

An item reported that an US naval patrol aircraft attacked around 80 miles south of St. Johns, Newfoundland on 1 March an enemy submarine with depth charges followed by a surface vessel which did the same. The result was an oil slick probably caused by a sunken submarine.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 86 dated 6 March 1942. 

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