RAID ON MARSHALLS
MADE BY AMERICAN CARRIER FORCE ELEVEN JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK RECENTLY. IN PACIFIC AND FAR EAST. LONDON. December 6. oThe United States Navy Department announces that a strontj carrier task force attacked the Marshall Islands, in the Central Pacific, last Saturday. No details are available yet. It is also announced that United States submarines recently sank eleven Japanese merchantmen in the Pacific and Far Eastern waters. These included one large tanker and nine mediumsized freighters. It is unofficially stated that 900 Japanese ships have been destroyed since Pearl Harbour. Submarines have accounted for a third of that number.
TWO-MILE ADVANCE MADE BY AUSTRALIANS IN NEW GUINEA. LONDON, December 6. A communique from the SouthWest Pacific states that in New Guinea, Australian troops have pushed on another two miles, with the support of tanks and aircraft. Naval craft shelled the Japanese positions on Bougainville south of the American beach-head. . Off the north-east coast of New Britain a 6000 ton Japanese freighter was set on fire.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1943, Page 4
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166RAID ON MARSHALLS Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1943, Page 4
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