JAPANESE LOSSES IN PATROL ACTIONS
Washington, Dec. 30. A Navy Department communique says that army and Marine Corps troops on Guadalcanar on December 27 killed 114 Japanese in patrol skirmishes. The United States casualties were two killed.
United States marines,, in an exchange of artillery and mortar fire, destroyed an enemy mortar and ma-chine-gun position and killed between 30 and 40 Japanese.
The marines later ambushed and killed 11 more of the enemy. The marines’ casualties were two killed and one wounded. United States planes on December 29 made two attacks on enemy cargo vessels at Wickham anchorage, on the south-east coast of Vangunu Island. Bombing and strafing resulted in the sinking of two enemy vessels.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 1, 2 January 1943, Page 5
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