CONVOYS IN PACIFIC
“TREMENDOUS SUCCESS” Rugby, Jan. 25. It is reported from Pearl Harbour that Captain Richard Coffman, senior Pacific convoy commander, who has never lost a ship, fold reporters that convoying in the Pacific has been a tremendous success. The Japanese information of German convoy movements was not so good as the Germans’. and also the crinnjed surface forces of the Japanese had not the strength to spread their fangs eastward in the Pacific. He added: “We know that the off°n r; " n hprnrrefar will soon rise in the South Pacific. We are building something in that area.”— 8.0.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 21, 27 January 1943, Page 5
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