JETTISONED BOMB
Shrapnel Wounds Child In
Queensland (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Special Australian. Correspondent.) SYDNEY, August 2.
The first civilian air-raid casualty on Australia’s east coast was the 2J-year-ol'd daughter of Italian-born sugar cane growers, living near Jlossman, Queensland, where a Japanese plane jettisoned a bomb last week. The child is iu hospital with a fractured skull, but is now out of danger. The (bomb fell 30 yards from the family’s galvanized iron cottage, shrapnel smashing furniture an'd fittings. A bomb fragment went through, the interior walls and struck the child, who was sleeping in her cot. Kittyhawk pilots who shot (down two enemy bombers and seven Zeros over Darwin on Thursday, losing only one Allied machine, say that no Japanese pilot was seen to parachute. This confirms the theory that Japanese pilots are under an order not to bail out over enemy territory. Japanese fighter pilots whose planes have been shot down over their own bases, have been know 9 n to parachute.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 261, 3 August 1942, Page 5
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164JETTISONED BOMB Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 261, 3 August 1942, Page 5
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