Japanese cargo ship set on fire in the Lae-Salamua area according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 5 August 1942

An item reported that in the night of 2-3August during an attacke in the Lae-Salamua area a Japanse freighter was sighted being beached and set on fire.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 238 dated 5 August 1942.