AIR ATTACKS
JAPANESE RAID ON SURABAYA ALSO ON JAVA AERODROME. AT LEAST FIVE BOMBERS SHOT DOWN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, February 19. A Batavia communique states: •‘There was a Japanese air attack yesterday on the harbour area of Surabaya, with twenty-four planes. Allied fighters attacked the enemy, while anti-aircraft guns opened fire. Five enemy bombers were shot down. Some damage was sustained. An Indonesian was wounded. Our anti-aircraft fire succeeded in hitting four enemy fighters, however without certainty that they were shot down. “Today a Japanese air raid took place on an aerodrome in west Java, inflicting some damage. At other places in the archipelago there was some enemy reconnaissance activity. “Action against the enemy which landed at Palembang still continues.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1942, Page 3
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