CRIPLING BLOWS
NEW YORK, October 11. Officers and men scurried to safety in the nearby hills during the second raid on Rabaul by Flying Fortresses, according to the correspondent of the Associated Press in New Guinea, Major William Hipps, who was on board one of the bombers. “Do not let anyone tell you those sons of emperors like bombs,” he said. “ When we were approaching Rabaul we saw long lines of car lights streaming into the ■ hills from the centre of tho town, and no ono was going joyriding at night as fast as those cars were travelling.” Tho commanding officer of the bomber said he was proud of every man who participated. What they did not do the first night they did on Saturday, aqd both missions were entirely successful. The correspondent added that the crippling blows on Rabaul are believed to' have appreciably complicated Japanese supply and reinforcement problems, both in the New Guinea and Solomons theatres.
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Evening Star, Issue 24324, 13 October 1942, Page 3
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159CRIPLING BLOWS Evening Star, Issue 24324, 13 October 1942, Page 3
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