JAPANESE RAIDS
ON WESTERN AUSTRALIA USE OF LAND-BASED FIGHTERS. FITTED WITH EXTRA TANKS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) RUGBY. March 5. _ A message from Canberra says an Air Force spokesman expressed the opinion that the Japanese were using landbased fighters, with extra petrol tanks, for their recent attacks on Western Australia, in order to conserve their bombers for use against other objectives. Reports received by the Air Force showed that the Japanese were machine-gunning with incendiary bullets and firing cannon shells from altitudes of 8000 to 10,000 feet. These weapons were used against oil storages in New Guinea and on the Australian mainland. Members of the Air Force believe that the Japanese consider that, by the use of fighters, they are able to attain their objectives of destroying installations, and at the same time to defend themselves against Australian aircraft.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1942, Page 4
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