ANOTHER JAP “VICTORY”
Recd. 6 p.m. New York. Dec. 6. Another smashing sea victory has been claimed by Tokio official radio. Tt says that Japanese naval planes on Friday rifcht. south of Bougainville, in the northern Solomons, sank . a United States battleship, three aircraft carriers, and two cruisers, set fire to another battleship, and possibly sank one heavy cruiser and one destroyer. The Japanese losses were given as six planes. Last month the Japanese claimed to have sunk 10 carriers and three battleships, when in fact they sank only one baby flat-top.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 290, 8 December 1943, Page 5
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