CONVOYS IN PACIFIC
"TREMENDOUS SUCCESS"
(Rec. 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 25. It is reported fro*:: Pearl Harbour that Captain Richard Coffman, senior Pacific convoy commander, who has never lost a ship, ~old reporters that convoying in the Pacific has been a tremendous success. The Japanese information of German convoy movements was not so good as the Germans', and also the crippled, surface forces of the Japanese had not the strength to spread their fangs eastward in the Pacific. He added: "We know that the offensive barometer will soon rise in the South Pacific. We are building something in that area."— 8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1943, Page 4
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102CONVOYS IN PACIFIC Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1943, Page 4
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