Millard County Chronicle | 1945-08-16 | Page 7 | Jap 'Ersatz' Merchant Fleet Takes a Beating |

Type	issue
Date	1945-08-16
Paper	Millard County Chronicle
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Jap 'Ersatz' Merchant Fleet Takes a Beating
Type	article
Date	1945-08-16
Paper	Millard County Chronicle
Page	7
OCR Text	Show Jap 'Ersatz' Merchant Fleet Takes a Beating si-is s mk.m mmi$mm-mmm ?Mmmm.:Mmm r iis; s tm mtimmgMW' ft ,", ? "- - , i t t , . V -v . , , v , - ' : The harbor at Hachinohe, in the Jap home island of Honshu, Is no safe harbor for these "ersatz" wooden luggers of the dwindling Jap merchant fleet. Hastily and crudely built to replace better ships sunk by the Americans, these ugly ducklings of the sea soon join their better predecessors at the bottom of the sea urged on their way by guns and bombs of carrier-based aircraft of the mighty U. S. Third fleet.
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