TEN JAPANESE SHIPS
INCLUDING A DESTROYER SUNK BY AMERICAN PLANES AND SUBMARINES. IN PACIFIC AND FAR EAST. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, May 17. The sinking of ten Japanese ships, including a destroyer, is recorded in a United States Navy Department communique. It states that Avengers attacked four cargo vessels on May 15 in the Buin area. One ship was set on fire. American submarines are reported, in actions in the Pacific and Far East, to have sunk one destroyer, one large and one medium sized cargo ship, one medium transport, one small passenger freighter and one small escort vessel, and to have damaged a large tanker.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1943, Page 4
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