JAPANESE DORY SUNK
Crew Visits Capture (8.0 p.m.) PEARL HARBOUR. Oct. 5. The Navy reported that three Japanese were killed when their motor dory sank yesterday in an engagement with the transport, Thitrston, halfway between New Guinea and the Caroline Islands.
The Thurston sighted an apparently deserted dory and sent a motor-boat to investigate. Japanese sprang from beneath a blanket. Two Japanese attacked the American boarding party with hand grenades. A third boarded the investigating craft and forced the crew into the water. The Thurston launched another motorboat and sank the dory by gunfire. All the Americans were recovered without casualty.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23324, 6 October 1945, Page 5
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101JAPANESE DORY SUNK Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23324, 6 October 1945, Page 5
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