HEAVY RAID

Grey River Argus, 4 June 1943, Page 5

HEAVY RAID

Isi Wewak Area

BY MacARTHUR’S BOMBERS.

(Rec. 11.10.) ■ SYDNEY. June ' Serious damage to parked aircraft and ammunition dumps is claimed as the result of a heavy raid by r lying Fortresses and Liberators on the Wewak area, in northern New Guinea early on Wednesday morning. To-day’s communique says: Our heavy bombers executed a night attack on enemy aerodromes at But, Wewak, and Boram. dropping over twenty-four tons of explosives on runways, dispersal areas, and supply installations. Numerous fires and explosions indicated serious destruction or damage to parked aircraft ana ammunition dumps. Intense ack ack fire, was encountered. All our planes returned.” , Improved weather permitted li o attacks on other enemy bases. A single Liberator, on a long-range r_eonnaissance mission, strafed villages and barges along the shore at Hollandia, on the north-east coast. of Dutch New Guinea. The same bomber attacked a small enemy cargo vessel fifty miles north-east of W • Liberators and Mitchells, ing in two waves, raided enemy P ping off Lautem, in Timor They wer e intercepted by fi v e 2er°s, but drove off the enemy fignteis, piob aby destroying one of them.