JAPANESE CLAIMS
“SMASHING SEA VICTORY” (10 a.m.)' ' NEW YORK. Dec. 0. Another smashing sea victory has been claimed by Tokio official radio. It says that Japanese naval planes on Friday night, south of Bougainville Island in the northern Solomons, sank a United States battleship, three aircraft carriers and two cruisers, ancl set fire to another battleship, and possibly sank one heavy cruiser and one destroyer. Japanese losses were given as six planes. Last month the Japanese claimed to have sunk 10 carriers and three battleships When,. in fact, they sank only one “baby flat-top.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21271, 7 December 1943, Page 4
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