Suicide Attacks Last Kick Of Japs on Bougainville
Received Wednesday, 8.50 p.m. WASHINGTON, March 15. The Japanese suicide attacks on Bougainville Island were the last desperate attempt to drive the Americans off the island, said Colonel Knox. He indicated clearly his confidence that the Japanese efforts would fail. Although the enemy attack had been well organised the Japanese had lost heavily whereas the American losses were small. Colonel Knox showed interviewers scale models of Japanese barges, more than 1150 of which had now been destroyed by the American Navy and Air Forces. He said the Japanese had been made desperate by their shipping losses and were now using these small craft, originally intended for invasion purposes, to carry supplies and reinforcements to their boleaguered garrisons.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 62, 16 March 1944, Page 5
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