JAPANESE FIGHTERS
INCREASE OVER ISLANDS ALLIED RAIDS UNCHECKED (10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 5. Increased Japanese lighter opposition to the Allied bombing raids was encountered north of Australia on Thursday. In two skirmishes the enemy lost two Zeros. Thunderstorms and extremely turbulent air conditions brought air operations in the Solomons Sea area to a halt.
Liberators which bombed Lautem, on the nroth coast of Timor, were engaged by four Zeros, one of which was shot down in flames. Shipping was the target for an attack before dawn, but General MacArthur’s communique does not report the results.
A second force of Liberators, reluming from a bombing raid on Babo, oil McCluer Gulf, in Dutch New Guinea, wfcrc intercepted by six enemy float-planes over Taberfane, on the south tip of the Aru Islands. Ono float-plane was destroyed and a second damaged. From ’ both the raids, all our Liberators returned. Medium bombers made a dawn raid on the Madang area of northern New Guinea with unstated results. A heavy reconnaissance bomber attacked an undisclosed target in Jacquinto Bay on the south coast of (New Britain. This is the full extent of south-west Pacific, air activity" reported in General MacArthur’s latest communique.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21113, 5 June 1943, Page 3
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