AIRCRAFT LOSSES
JAPANESE AT RABAUL Rec. 9 a.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 21. According to figures given in G.H.Q. communiques the Japanese have now lost 196 aircraft at Rabaul in the past three weeks, in addition to 64 planes probably lost and 12 damaged. The Allied losses were 35 aircraft. American Catalina bombers sank two enemy ships near the Admiralty Islands in night attacks on Tuesday. A 2000----ton cargo vessel received a direct hit and sank* in ten minutes. Later, a 5000-ton ship, with a destroyer escort, was attacked 33 miles east of Lorengau. It was evidently loaded with ammunition and blew up from two direct hits and near-misses. A third ship, a 3000-ton freighter, blew aj>art when hit by a bomb from a Catalina near Hansa Bay.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1944, Page 7
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126AIRCRAFT LOSSES Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1944, Page 7
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