More Heavy Japanese Shipping Losses
Mac ARTHUR’S BOMBING OFFENSIVE CONTINUES (Special Correspondent.) Received Friday, 10.15 p.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 1. A Japanese destroyer and four merchant vessels were destroyed or seriously damaged in the Northern Celebes by United States Navy Catalina flyingboats on Tuesday night. One Catalina probably sank two tankers in Manado Bay and later scored direct hits on a destroyer in Lembah Strait. A second Catalina sank two 1000-ton freighters at Manado. In the past fortnight Allied planes have sunk or severely damaged 18 large ships at this important Japanese transshipping centre. General MacArthur’s communique to-day also reports a new raid by Liberators on Davao (Southern Philippines) on Tuesday while 600 miles to the west other Liberators in daylight on Wednesday dropped more than 70 tons of bombs on Palau (Western Carolines). Heavy damage to harbour Installations is claimed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 208, 2 September 1944, Page 4
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