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SHOT DOWN BY AMERICANS IN OPERATIONS OVER GILBERTS. AGAINST LOSS OF FOUR AIRCRAFT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, November 25. An American carrier division, covering operations in the Gilbert Islands, yesterday shot down 34 enemy fighters, nine bombers and three four-engined patrol seaplanes, The carrier division’s losses were three fighters and one torpedo-bomber. This is announced in a Navy communique, which also reports a raid by Liberators yesterday on Emiji and Jaluit, an atoll of the Marshall Islands. Three airborne Japanese float-planes 'did not attempt any interception. Mopping-up operations on Tarawa, Makin and Abemama are virtually complete and few live Japanese remain in the Gilberts.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1943, Page 4
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