MORE ACTION IN SOLOMONS
MARINES ACCOUNT FOR MANY JAPS. (Received 10.55 a.m.) United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINT lT( >N, Dee 30. A Navy Department communique says that Army and Marine Corps troops on December 27th on Guadalcanal killed 114 Japanese in patrol skirmishes. United States casualties being two killed. United States marires in an, exchange of artillery and mortar fire destroyed an t nemy mortar and inaoh'i)ne>-gim position and' hilled between 30 and 10 Japanese. Maffn.es later ambushed and killed 11 ino>* ( ‘. while marine casualties were two killed and one wounded. United States planes on December 29th made two attacks on enemy cargo vessels at Wick ma n anchorage on tin* southeast coast of Nr.ngunu Island, when bombing strafing resulted in the sinking of two enemy vessels.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15238, 31 December 1942, Page 3
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