JAPANESE PLANES
EIGHTEEN DESTROYED OR DAMAGED RESULTS OF TWO DAYS’ FIGHTING. IN NORTH AUSTRALIAN AREA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 1. Allied planes have destroyed three enemy aircraft, probably destroyed 10, and damaged five during raids on Koepang (Timor), and Lae, and in Japanese counterattacks on Darwin and Port Moresby on March 30 and yesterday. The Australian Prime Minister, Mr Curtin, in a communique recording this, says that at least five direct hits were obtained in the raid on Lae on March 30. In a successful raid on Koepang yesterday six grounded enemy aircraft were probably destroyed, and four enemy flying-boats were damaged by machine-gun fire. Nearmisses were noted on a ship in the harbour. One Zero fighter was certainly shot down during the raid and an enemy bomber was probably des? troyed. Darwin had another raid yesterday evening. Bombs which were dropped caused neither damage nor casualties.
THIRTY THIS WEEK DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY aircraft. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) RUGBY, April 1. Thirty Japanese planes, 22 of them at Koepang, have been destroyed this week north of Australia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1942, Page 3
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