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LINER PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SUNK IN SOLOMONS AREA. MAY HAVE STRUCK AMERICAN MINE. (Bv Telegraph—(Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, December 15. The Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Knox) disclosed that the lmer President Coolidge was sunk close to shore in the Solomons area. A Naval Born a is inquiring into the possibility that the ship struck an American mine.
There were 4,000 men aboard the President Coolidge, but only four lives were lost.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1942, Page 3
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78LOST TROOPSHIP Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1942, Page 3
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