ENEMY SHIPS SUNK
HEAVY JAPANESE LOSSES (Received Sept. 22, 11.30 a.m.) CHUNGKING, Sept. 21 Two Liberators, using “special equipment,” sank six Japanese vessels, totalling 14,200 tons, of a convoy of eleven ships in the Formosa Strait on September 19, says General Stilwell's communique. The communique added: The 14th Air Force alone sank 74,600 tons of shipping from September 1 to 19, and also probably sank an enemy cruiser and a submarine.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22460, 22 September 1944, Page 4
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