LOSS OF DESTROYER
CAPE GLOUCESTER SINKING WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 A Navy communique states that the destroyer which was sunk by Japanese planes off Cape Gloucester, New Britain, on December 27, was the Brownson. There were 298 survivors. The Brownson was a vessel of 2100 tons and was commissioned in February, 1942.
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Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22246, 15 January 1944, Page 5
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