Some 250 miles southwest of Portugal, enemy aircraft spotted an important Allied convoy, bound for Britain. Next morning the enemy attacked with submarines, followed up with heavy bombers, rocket-glider bombs. Through four days and three nights the Germans displayed their newest air-and-sea tactics.
Under Water. As many as ten submarines bunched against the convoy never broke through escorting Canadian corvettes, British frigates and sloops. Focke-Wulf 200s and four-engined Heinkel 1775 flew out from French bases to launch radio-controlled glider bombs (British sailors call them "Chase-Me-Charlies"). Flak from the ships, Allied Fortresses, Liberators, Hudsons, Catalinas, Venturas, Sunderlands, fought off the attackers....
