Re: U-281: B-24 and Sunderland attack, info needed please
Geoffrey Sinclair offers the following additions
Follow up for Joda87, Air 22/164 is the relevant Coastal Command Weekly
Summaries. The 16 and 17 October 1943 submarine attacks take two pages,
(Pictures 383 and 384 in my copy) I do not think 12 O'Clock High allows
photographs.
South West Iceland,
On the 16th two home based B-24 each made two attacks, each B-24
claiming a sinking with survivors in the water while three Iceland based
B-24 also each made two attacks against U-boats. I read it as 5 B-24
each found a U-boat, making 2 attacks on each boat.
On the 17th a home based Sunderland made an attack and was forced to
ditch while Iceland based B-24, 6 different aircraft reported between
them 2 sightings and 8 attacks meaning 3 aircraft each did 2 attacks, as
I read it 2 aircraft were doing second attacks on the same U-boat, 1
aircraft attacked 2 U-boats. An Iceland based Hudson reported a sighting.
Geoffrey
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