RABAUL’S VALUE IMPAIRED
INCESSANT ALLIED BOMBING (Rec. 10.55 a.m.) Sydney, This Day. The incessant bombing of Rabaul’s four aerodromes has seriously impaired Japanese air strength in the south-west Pacific. Reconnaissance following last Saturday’s attacks by 150 Solomons-based aircraft showed the fields to contain only about 100 planes, whereas they once housed hundreds. Most of the planes on the fields after Saturday’s raids were bombers. Shipping at Rabaul is now only one-third of the tonnage of three months ago. The Japanese are believed to have been forced to rely on small freighters and barges to keep their supply services going.— P.A. Special Australian Correspondent
JAPANESE ADMIRAL KILLED (Rec. 11.15 a.m.) New York, Feb. 8. Tokio official radio announced that Vice-Admiral Tervo Akiyama has been killed in action on the southern front. The date and place of Admiral Akiyama’s death is not disclosed but the United Press of America comments that prisoners disclosed that a Rear-Admiral . commanded Kwajalein and it is presumed that the commander was killed.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 9 February 1944, Page 5
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