SUNK IN PACIFIC
BY AMERICAN SUBMARINE AT LEAST FIVE JAPANESE SHIPS. INCLUDING DESTROYER & TANKER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, July 25. The Navy Department’s hundredth communiquqe since the war began announces that United States submarines in Eastern waters have sunk a modern Japanese destroyer, a medium-sized tanker, and three merchantmen, and, further, have damaged, and, it is believed, sunk a fourth merchantman. These actions are not reported in any previous communique. The sinking enemy destroyer, which went down in nine minutes after being struck by two torpedoes, was photographed through the periscope of the attacking submarine.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1942, Page 3
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95SUNK IN PACIFIC Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1942, Page 3
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