ANOTHER SMASHING RADIO NAVAL VICTORY FOR JAPS
NEW YORK, Dec. 6. Another smashing sea victory has been claimed hy the Tokio official radio. It says that Japanese naval planes on Friday night south of Bougainville (Northern Solomons) sank a United States battleship, three aircraft-carriers and two cruisers and set fire to another battleship and possibly sank one heavy cruiser and one destroyer. The Japanese losses were given as six planes. Last month the Japanese claimed to have sunk ten carriers and three battleships when in fact they sank only one baby flat-top.
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Otaki Mail, 8 December 1943, Page 1
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