AMERICAN MARINES
WAR AT CAPE GLOUCESTER
LONDON, January 5. A strong force of marines has driven eastward from Cape Gloucester, in New-Britain, against stiff Japanese resistance. The new drive, supported by tanks, artillery, and aircraft, was started after, the marines had smashed an enemy counter-attack. The United States forces are now approaching Borgen Bay. The marines who landed at Saidor, on the north coast of New Guinea, have enlarged their beachhead. Five Japanese planes which tried to attack shipping there were shot down. South-west Pacific aircraft scored a direct hit on a Japanese cruiser at Kavieng, New Ireland, and blew up two freighters off Timor.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1944, Page 6
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