HEAVILY DAMAGED
American Battleship (11 p.m.) GUAM, Aug. 23. The navy announced that a Japanese plane torpedoed and heavily damaged the battleship Pennsylvania on the night of August. 21 during the surrender negotiations. Twenty of the crew were killed or missing. The plane, which escaped swept in low and open - ed a gaping hole in the starboard side of the ship. The magazines were danlaged, but did not explode. Most of the casualties occurred below in the navigation compartment.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23288, 25 August 1945, Page 4
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