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BY UNITED STATES NAVY DEPARTMENT ON TOKIO STORY OF ATTACK ON FLEET. ELABORATION OF ENEMY CLAIMS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) NEW YORK, February 1. The Domei news agency broadcast purporting to describe a two-day assault on United States ships, claimed earlier, says that Japanese scout planes on January 29 located a powerful Allied fleet east of Rennell Island (south of the Solomons), steaming north in a rough sea whipped by strong gales. Formidable formations of torpedo planes, it is asserted, dived through the clouds and beat off an escort of Grumman Wildcat planes. The Japanese commander scored a hit on a battleship, causing a great explosion, and later crashed his burning plane headlong on to the battleship, setting fire to the bridge. The battleship sank after receiving further torpedo hits. Two cruisers are claimed to have been sunk instantly. Two other battleships and a cruiser are said to have ben set on fire.
Torpedo planes on January 30, the Japanese agency alleges, attacked and damaged the battleships, sinking one and setting fire to the other, seriously damaging it. The cruiser sank instantlji Three Grumman Wildcats were brought down. Ten Japanese planes were lost.
The United States Navy Department has declined to comment on the reports.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1943, Page 3
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