JAPANESE SMASHED OVER DARWIN
Bombers And Zeros Fail
NO LOSS OF ALLIED PLANES LONDON, August 24.. General MacArthur’s fighter pilots have scored a smashing victory over a force of Japanese aircraft which attempted a daylight raid on Darwin. Thirteen of the enemy were shot down. . In this the first attack on Darwin since July 30 the Japanese used 27 bombers with an escort of 20 Zero fighters. Their objective was an airfield, but the Allied pilots, attacking with what is officially described as brilliant tactical interception, recorded their greatest victory against a single attack on Australia. Out of the total of 47 raiders four bombers and nine fighters were destroyed.' The Allied planes achieved this without loss to themselves.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 280, 25 August 1942, Page 5
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119JAPANESE SMASHED OVER DARWIN Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 280, 25 August 1942, Page 5
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