JAP BATTLESHIP
Sunk by Bombing IN SOUTH WEST PACIFIC. (Rec. 11.15.) LONDON, June 1. The New Delhi correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says: The Tokio radio disclosed that United States forces in the South-west Pacific sank a Japanese battleship additional to those already claimed.
The Tokio radio simultaneously announced that Rear-Admiral Yanagimoto was killed when the battleship was dive-bombed and sunk. The United States had claimed the sinking of two Japanese battleships in a surface action, and has also announced that two Japanese battleships had been dive-bombed, but it did not claim any sinking by bombing.
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Grey River Argus, 2 June 1943, Page 5
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