POUNDING OF WAKE ISLAND
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LONDON, Oc-tober 12. Describing the recent two-day attack on Wake Island, an American correspondent with Rear-Admiral Montgomery’s naval task force said that the biggest concentration of carriers in naval history carried out the attack. Naval planes flew more'than §OO sorties and more than SOO tons of bombs-and. shells rained on the island.
Admiral Montgomery said that threefifths of the island’s water installations were destroyed, and barracks and other installations hit. Most of the Gin. and Bin. guns on the coast were destroyed. On the second day the Japanese sent air reinforcements, but not a single naval vessel.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 15, 13 October 1943, Page 5
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103POUNDING OF WAKE ISLAND Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 15, 13 October 1943, Page 5
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