CORAL SEA
Further land action in New Guinea is reported in today’s communique, which says that Allied troops recently surprised and repulsed enemy patrols attempting to attack Mubo, 15 miles south of Salamaua, The enemy lost 60 men in this engagement. The air war which was so heavily intensified on Friday and Saturday, continued unabated on Sunday. Three enemy planes made a further attack on Darwin in the early night. Damage was negligible. Our bombers over the northern Solomons raided Kieta, Bougainville Island and the Buka passage, where enemy installations on Buka and Sohana Island were attacked.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 256, 28 July 1942, Page 5
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97CORAL SEA Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 256, 28 July 1942, Page 5
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