JAPAN’S HEAVY LOSSES
WARSHIPS AND PLANES WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 The Japanese have suffered such destruction at Rabaul, according to a United States Navy spokesman, that they may have to abandon the base as being “too hot to handle.” Their losses include important fleet units. The spokesman asserted that 102 Japanese planes had been shot down in the Rabaul zone in the past six days, compared with 15 American planes lost. These figures were so fantastic that even high Government officials doubted them until they were supplied with proof. Nevertheless, the Japanese continue to pour ships and planes into Rabaul. The s’pokesman gave a list of Japanese claims of Allied ships sunk or damaged since the Pearl Harbour raid, as follows: —Battleships, 26 sunk, 12 damaged; carriers, 14 sunk, 6 damaged; cruisers, 80 sunk, 37 damaged; destroyers, 82 sunk, 31 damaged; submarines, 147 sunk, 51 damaged. The United States Navy’s official figures of its own losses in all war theatres are: One battleship, 4 carriers, 9 cruisers, 33 destroyers, 14 submarines.
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Waikato Times, Volume 193, Issue 22198, 18 November 1943, Page 5
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