JAPAN’S NAVAL LOSSES
“ Stunning Total ” By Telegraph— N. 7» Press Assn.—Copyright (7.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. Ihe Washington correspondent of the “New York Herald Tribune” says that this is the first time in history a major power has lost its navy and merchant marine during a war. United States Navy officials, discussing the overwhelming defeat of Japanese sea power, gave unstinting credit to the wholehearted assistance of the naval forces of Grep t Britain, New Zealand. Australia and the Netherlands. Togo.her these forces sank or otherwise effectively destroyed the stunning total of 18 battleships, 15 aircraft carriers, 56 cruisers and 138 destroyers, as well as 1000 large, medium and small cargo ships, smaller craft, amphibious barges, light coastal units and submarines.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23280, 16 August 1945, Page 4
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121JAPAN’S NAVAL LOSSES Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23280, 16 August 1945, Page 4
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