DESTROYER SINKS CONVOY
('Received February 10. 11.55 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 10. The United States destroyer Burns sank an entire convoy of four enemy ships in the Marshalls area on January 35, the day of the invasion of the islands, states a Pacific Fleet communique. The Burns was attached to a carrier task force and was sent to rescue navy flyers forced down at sea. Returning toward the task force, she encountered a tanker with a medium cargo vessel and two smaller craft, and sank all of them by gunfire, *
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 116, 11 February 1944, Page 5
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