The Archive · 1941

Soviets Claim 14 Nazi Subs Sunk

Washington, Aug, 12.

The Goyiet Embassy yesterday issued an information bulletin which quoted the Red Navy newspaper "Krasnyi Baltiyskiy Flot" as saying that in 44 days of the Russo-German war the Nazi navy lost 14 submarines in (he eastern naval theatre, jo newspaper said that four of the submarines struck mines laid by Soviet ships, one foundered after a collision with a Bulgarian destroyer in the Black Sea, while others were sunk by the Soviet navy in acti The article loss as evidence the German U-boat not invincible—United

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