SHIP WASTAGE
JAPAN'S UNHEALING WOUND 44 MILLION TONS SUNK (Hoc. noon.) RUGBY, May 26. Submarines have all but severed Japan from her former possessions, said Admiral Nimitz, disclosing today that his submarines sank 20,000,000 tons of Japanese shipping in the past year. Since the beginning of the Pacific war over 1.100 Japanese vessels have been sunk, totalling four and a-half million tons. Giving details of the destruction visited on Japanese sea power he said: " Between December 7, 1941, and May 5 of this year our submarines alone have sunk a total of 126 enemy warships, including four carriers. 14 cruisers, and 53 destroyers. They have sunk 993 non-combatant ships. The total of Japanese vessels sunk is 1,119. This, I need badly add, is a conservative estimate. To-day no enemy warship or merchant ship ran venture upon the waters of the Pacific without a wellgrounded fear in the hearts of the men that they will never return to the homo base."
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Evening Star, Issue 25495, 28 May 1945, Page 5
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160SHIP WASTAGE Evening Star, Issue 25495, 28 May 1945, Page 5
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