ANOTHER JAP "VICTORY"
NEW YORK, December 6.
Another' smashing sea victory has been claimed by Tokio official radio. It says that Japanese naval planes on Friday night south of Bougainville, in the northern Solomons, sank <a United State battleship, three aircraftcarriers, and two cruisers, set fire to another battleship, and possibly sank one heavy cruiser and one destroyer. The Japanese losses were given as six planes. Last month the Japanese claimed to have sunk'lo carriers and three battleships, .when in fact they sank only one baby flat-too. . i
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 137, 7 December 1943, Page 5
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