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title: Daitoa News (Nippon Eigasha newsreel), title card "American War Losses"
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/daitoa-news-american-war-losses-1942/
description: 'Black-and-white tally card from a Japanese newsreel, in English: a heading ''American War Losses'' over a list of battleships (9, 271,700 tons), ''others…'
section: Collection
---

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# Daitoa News (Nippon Eigasha newsreel), title card "American War Losses"

Black-and-white tally card from a Japanese newsreel, in English: a heading 'American War Losses' over a list of battleships (9, 271,700 tons), 'others 11', airplanes 464, hangars 18 and casualties 5.500, each with a small silhouette icon. The card gives one side's claimed damage as a single column of round totals, with no source, no date and no figure for Japanese losses (card-stacking: a selected tally presented as the whole account).

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
AMERICAN WAR LOSSES
BATTLESHIPS 9 (271,700 tons)   OTHERS 11
AIRPLANES . . . . . . . . . . 464
HANGARS . . . . . . . . . . 18
CASUALITIES . . . . . . . 5.500
```

Spelling 'CASUALITIES' and the decimal point in '5.500' are as on the card. The card is already in English, so there is no translation.

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