DEFENCE OF BATAN
FURTHER HEAVY ATTACKS REPELLED JAPANESE DIVE-BOMBER SHOT DOWN. ANOTHER LANDING ATTEMPT FAILS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, April 6. In the Philippines the Japanese are making determined efforts to smash General Wainwright’s forces in the Batan Peninsula. The heavy attack on the right ‘centre of the American forces was resumed yesterday with masses of infantry, tanks, guns and dive-bombers. The assault was stopped after hard fighting, in which the enemy suffered heavy losses and failed to extend the slight gains made on . Saturday. A Japanese dive-bomber was shot down. For the second night in succession the enemy attempted to land fresh troops on the shore of Manila Bay, but the American shore batteries prevented a landing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1942, Page 3
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