HALSEY’S BOMBERS
RECORD OF SUCCESSES. (Rec. 12.5.) LONDON, April 5. A report from Pearl Harbour states: Land-based U.S. Navy Marine bombers and torpedo-planes, from Guadalcanar Island, sank at least seventeen Japanese ships, including a battleship, and damaged sixty-eight others between August 25; 1942 and February 28. 1943. Rear-seat gunners in the same period shot down eleven Zeros and eleven float-planes. These figures do not include losses inflicted by 'carrier-based or Army planes.
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Grey River Argus, 6 April 1943, Page 5
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