An item reported that on 9 August Allied aircraft sighted 4 Japanese cruisers in formation and another heavy cruiser escorted by a destroyer off the northwestern coast of Bougainville Island apparently returning to Rabaul, New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 245 dated 12 August 1942.
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