DESTROYER'S SUCCESS
FOUR JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK (Rec. 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. The United States destroyer Burns sank an entire convoy of four enemy ships in the Marshalls area on January 31, the day of the invasion of the islands, states a Pacific Fleet communique. Burns was attached to the carrier task force, and was sent to rescue navy flyers forced down at sea. Returning towards the task force, she encountered a tanker, a medium cargo vessel, and two smaller craft, and sank all of them with gunfire.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25457, 11 February 1944, Page 3
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