TOLL OF JAP SHIPS
U.S. NAVY DIVE-BOMBERS Rugby, Dec. 28 A United Stales Navy communiqui Tates that additional reports have □een received about the attack b' Jive-bombers from Guaclalcanar oi lho small group of enemy ships south' aard of Vanguni Island, off Nev Georgia. In addition to the 3000 lonner announced as sunk near Wick ham Island, a second enemy ship i now also known to have been sun! iuring the attack, which took placi on December 26. It is also announced that on Decern ber 27 observers discovered about 3( rargo-laden parachute on the bead at Tassafaronga, Guaclalcanar. Arm; .-Xi ra co or as subsequently bombed am strafed enemy supplies which hat been flown in. Dauntless dive-bomb ms and Airacobras bombed and straf ?d Japanese in the area north-west o Koku m bona, Guad a lea nar. On Saturday, Lightning tighter, strafed Japanese shore insta!io.Lions a Kiska, in the Aleutians. Two Light nings were lost, but one pilot was res
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 307, 30 December 1942, Page 3
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