Claimed Bad Weather Robbed Japs. Of Victory
NEW YORK, May 13,
A Japanese naval spokesman at Shanghai asserted today that bad weather and nothing else preventing the Japanese fleet from achieving a knock-out victory in the air and naval battle of the Coral Sea. The spokesman added that if it had not been for the weather, the Japanese would have been able to pursue and completely destroy the United Nations’ forces. He declared that the United Nations’ forces consisted of two aircraft-carriers, two battleships, three 10,000-ton cruisers and six or seven destroyers.
Tokio official radio tacitly admitted the importance of the Coral Sea battle by the disclosure that Japanese warships were commanded by the commander-in-chief of the combined fleet (Admiral Yamamoto), to whom the Premier (Togo) cabled a message of felicitations on “the brilliant achievements attained by the Japanese Navy against the combined AngloAmerican fleet.”
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Northern Advocate, 14 May 1942, Page 3
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