BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Chickens that Got Home
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Only once again, just before the convoy reached Russia, did the enemy attack. Twenty-four dive-bombers tried to finish it. No ships were damaged. Two enemy planes were downed.
Said Admiral Boddam-Whetham: "I won't complain if the next time they give someone else the chance to make this trip." The British Admiralty announced the loss of the destroyer Somali and the minesweeper Leda. Admiral Boddam-Whetham said that about twelve out of 40 merchantmen went down.
*For the first time Hurricane fighters, adapted for use from carriers which seldom can be spared for convoy duty, were used successfully to protect a convoy from land-based aircraft.
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