JAPANESE CLAIM
Smashing Sea Victory (10 p.m) NEW YORK, Dec. 6. Another smashing sea victory has been claimed by the Tokio official radio. It says: ‘•Japanese naval planes on Friday night south of Bougainville in tlie Northern Solomons sank a United States battleship, three aircraft-carriers and two cruisers, set fire to another battleship and possibly sank one heavy cruiser and one destroyer.” Japanese losses were given as six planes. Last month the Japanese claimed to have sunk 10 carriers and three battleships when, in fact, they sank only one baby flat-top.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIV, Issue 22759, 7 December 1943, Page 5
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91JAPANESE CLAIM Timaru Herald, Volume CLIV, Issue 22759, 7 December 1943, Page 5
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