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Re: Short Sunderland lost 18 December 1943
There is another possibility for the loss. U-boats were operating in that area at the time and they were equiped with AAA. The U-850 was on her first patrol going to the Indian Ocean on the 20Dec43 in mid-Atlantic W. of Madeira, Portugal, in position 32.54N, 37.01W, she was sunk by 5 Avengers from the U.S.S. Bogue (CVE). If she encountered the Short there might never have been a report.
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