JAPANESE DEATH ROLL
MUCH HEAVIER THAN AMERICAN (Rec. 9 p.m.) RUGBY, May 19. Fourteen Japanese soldiers are being killed for every American killed in the Pacific operations, states the United States Office of War Information. Even if the United States wounded and missing from Guadalcanar in October, 1942, are included, the Japanese losses are three times those of the United States. The Japanese death roll leaves out of account many thousands drowned or killed in ships or barges sunk or damaged by naval and air action, killed by bombing behind the Japanese lines, and those in isolated garrisons. Earlier the United States Navy Department issued statistics that the ratio of Japanese to United States Navy losses in the Pacific war is now 9.4 to--1 against the Japanese.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25849, 21 May 1945, Page 5
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