Complex sentence: A Venezuelan gunboat,, assisted in rescuing the crews of several torpedoed vessels and an American A- 20 Havoc light bomber skirmished with one of the German U-boats but was unsuccessful in defeating it.
Split into simpler sentences: A Venezuelan gunboat,, assisted in rescuing the crews of several torpedoed vessels. An American A- 20 Havoc light bomber skirmished with one of the German U-boats but was unsuccessful in defeating it.