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...Lady Haw-Haw who broadcasts in Eng lish on Radio Tokyo. One U.S. sub crew which had just sunk two Jap transports' liked her pro gram the night they left for home. Said Tokyo Rose:"You build 'em, we sink...
...British "frigates" (somewhat similar to the U.S. Navy's new destroyer escorts) led naval aircraft to another submarine. Attacking in turn, they destroyed the U-boat. Other aircraft, including the first Fortresses mentioned in Coastal Command use, and destroyers then attacked. They may have sunk two more submarines...
...submarines in the Pacific this week reported their biggest haul of the war: 12 Jap ships sunk, 1 probably sunk, 3 damaged. With this bag, the submarines' total came to 181 Jap ships sent to the bottom, or one-half of all Jap ships sunk since Pearl Harbor. Announced U.S. sub losses...
Washington reporters, hamstrung by Army & Navy censorship, trussed by red tape, and generally sunk by OWI's own inability to break out the news, were spluttering...
Australia's Air & Civil Aviation Minister Arthur Samuel Drakeford added estimates of Japanese shipping sunk by Allied action: 2,250,000 tons of warships and freight carriers. All told, the Jap was believed to have lost more ships since the outbreak of war than he had gained by seizure or new construction...