DEATHS & DAMAGE
RESULTS OF AMERICAN RAID ON HAIPHONG LARGE JAPANESE SHIP SUNK. GREAT FIRES STARTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 23. Quoting a Tokio report, the Berlin radio stated -that American planes yesterdya raided Haiphong. Forty-three persons were killed and 41 injured. Admiral Decoux was present during the raid, and later inspected the damage. An Associated Press correspondent in Chungking says that during the raid on Haiphong an American Sky Dragon sank a Japanese ship of over 12,000 tons, which observers thought was a transport, but was possibly an aircraftcarrier.
Sunday’s raid on the wharves -and warehouse area of the French JndoChina port started great fires on the waterfront.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1942, Page 4
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