TWO AMERICAN FLEETS
RECORD AGAINST JAPAN
Rec. 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, Oct. 18. Mr. J. V. Forrestal, United States Secretary of the Navy, disclosed that the Third and Fifth Fleets have destroyed 3080 Japanese planes, and sunk or damaged 905 Japanese ships since early in June, says a Washington message. At the same time he disclosed that the United States had sunk 804 Japanese ships during the war.
He added that the accumulation of sea and air blows was steadily and relentlessly '-'crowding the Jap back into his own corner." Eventually, the Japanese fleet must stand and fight, he said.
Mr. Forrestal described the operations of the past fortnight as "the opening move in unremitting pressure to be applied against Japan in the western Pacific." The United States was building up a tremendous volume of power.—B.O.W. and U.P.A. ..
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 95, 19 October 1944, Page 7
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