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JAPANESE AT HANOI SUCCESSFUL CHINESE ATTACK. ON AIR BASE & BARRACKS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) CHUNGKING, January 23. It is officially stated that the Hanoi Aerodrome was the chief target of the Chinese bombing mentioned in yesterday’s communique. Fifty-seven planes, of which 27 were Chinese bombers, fifteen American flown by Americans and fifteen Chinese fighters, attacked the big Japanese air base and barracks at Hanoi. The Japanese were caught flat-footed and not a single Japanese plane was able to take off.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1942, Page 4
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86TAKEN UNAWARES Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1942, Page 4
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