SUNK BY U.S. PLANES
JAPANESE DESTROYER
LONDON, December 5. American aircraft on Leyte have sunk a Japanese destroyer and five small freighters in nearby waters.
U.S. SHIP LOSSES
Rec. 1 p.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. A Navy Department communique announces the loss through enemy action of two minesweepers, one landing craft, and one torpedo-boat, in the Central Pacific, also the ammunition ship Mounthood, which accidentally blew up at an advanced base in the Central Pacific.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 5
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74SUNK BY U.S. PLANES Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 5
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