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Wednesday, 25 May 2022

Allied aircraft sighted Japanese warships at Rabaul according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 27 August 1942

An item reported that in the night of 24-25 August Allied bombers attacked the Japanese airdromes at Vunakanau, Lukanua and Gasmata (Bismarck Archipelago). In the harbour of Rabaul were three possible cruisers, 4 destroyers, 9 merchant ships, 1 whaling factory ship and 1 tanker sighted.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 260 dated 27 August 1942.

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