Convoy TAG 5 was a trade

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of merchant ships during the

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. It was the 5th of the numbered TAG Convoys from Trinidad and Aruba to Guantánamo.Hague, p.113 The convoy was found on 13 September 1942 by .

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Günther Krech (

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) destroyed three ships from the convoy in two approaches aboard ''U-558''.Rohwer & Hummelchen, p.164

Ships in the convoy

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TAG 5 at convoyweb
{{DEFAULTSORT:Convoy TAG 05 TAG 05 Naval battles of World War II involving Canada