Enemy Pays Heavily for Air Raid
■WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. A Navy Department communique saysThe Japanese twice raided our positions en Guadalcanar Island on Saturday (east longitude date). The first attack "itu." 1 ? oby Pl* n es, while the second eight hours later was by 18 bombers. Three enemy bombers and four Zeros * bot d ° w ". „ While no American lanes Here lost. The damage to our po- 1 sitions was only minor. Allied rommanl | he . a,l i forces in the South-West .rnh.hlv".? 1 t t‘ W< ‘ d ' Sak ' : "° l,r Pilots are robably the best in the world. Thev covered themselves with E lory in
action. I have seen them put to tests under most terrible conditions, and they came through every time with flying colours. Our fliers have shown amazing willingness to risk their lives under the severest conditions.”
The Flying Fortress in which Lieut. - General Brett, Allied commander of the air forces in the South-West Pacific, returned to America broke all records for a t rans-Pacific flight, its time being 3Jhrs. loniiM. tooll an active part in
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 208, 1 September 1942, Page 5
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