NAIL IN JAPAN'S COFFIN
SUBMARINES FROM FREMANTLE. PERTH, Aug. 20. It can now be revealed that United States submarines using Fremantle as a base claimed the sinking ot about •> 000,000 tons of enemy shipping and the damaging of 3,500,000 tons during the .Pacific campaign. . At one stage the 1' remantle pasc reported the destruction ot qne-tnir'l of all Japanese merchant shipping sunk and more than 1,000,000 tons to December, 1943. Six or seven submarines working out of Fremantle in one month sank about 130,000 tons, according to figures released by the United btates UU At'one time the only offensive force operating from Australia—in the grim ; days that followed the tall ot Java—the submarines attacked targets north | of Australia with an effectiveness which I was to be the first nail m Japan s coffin. Fremantle became one ot the biggest bases in the Pacific so far as submarines were concerned, with 50 submarines carrying the war into, the enemy's communication lines.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 224, 21 August 1945, Page 5
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