TWENTY LOST

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 166, 16 July 1942, Page 5

TWENTY LOST

JAPANESE WARSHIPS

Further Details Of Losses In

Midway Battle

United Press Association.—Copyright. Rec. 1.30 WASHINGTON, July 15.

Further details of the Midway Island battle released by the Navy Department reveal that of the 80 Japanese ships which participated in the attack 20 were sunk or damaged, 275 aircraft were destroyed, and 4800 enemy personnel either killed or drowned. The United States carrier York town was put out of action and the destroyer Hammann was torpedoed and sunk. American personnel losses were 92 officers and 215 men. The number of American aircraft lost is not revealed. The Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Knox, revealed that the convoy system which had been employed on the eastern coast of the United States since the middle of May had been extended to the Caribbean and would eventually include the Gulf of Mexico. Colonel Knox expressed satisfaction at the success of the convoys. The Navy Department at Washington announces that a U-boat sank a medium-sized United States merchantmen off the north coast of South America with the loss of 10 lives. A Japanese plane dive-bombed and sank a medium-sized Panamanian ship in the Indian Ocean. Six out of the 34 survivors are related. Other Japanese planes machinegunned the sinking ship, wounding two members of the crew.