AMERICAN SHIP
SUNK IN WEST AFRICAN WATERS. FIRST REPORTED EVENT OF KIND. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 13. The Navy Department announced that a medium-sized United States ship was torpedoed and sunk off the West Coast of Africa. Survivors have landed in the United States. This is the Navy's first announcement of the loss of an American ship in African waters.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1942, Page 4
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67AMERICAN SHIP Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1942, Page 4
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