SOLOMONS FIGHT
SECOND JAP BATTLESHIP LOST Washington, March 13. Two Japanese battleships were sunk in the battle off GuadalcanalIsland last November, the United States Navy Department announced to-day. It explained that a study of later intelligence reports has disclosed that one heavy cruiser which was previously claimed as sunk was actually a battleship. Japan lost 64 ships in the naval engagements in the Solomons area between August 7 and February 7. They included two battleships, 12 cruisers, 26 destroyers, and 24 noncombatant vessels. In addition nine warships and one non-combatant vessel were probably sunk, and 81 warships and 27 noncombatant ships were damaged. The American losses in the same period and area totalled 32 ships sunk, including two aircraft-carriers, seven cruisers, 13 destroyers, and 10 miscellaneous ships, and a further two cruisers anti three destroyers damaged.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 62, 16 March 1943, Page 5
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