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SAVE FOR MINOR DAMAGE HEAVY ENEMY RAID ON PORT MORESBY. JAPANESE TRANSPORTS BOMBED IN TIMOR. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, May 19. A communique from General MacArthur’s headquarters says that a Japanese force of 34 heavy bombers and 15 fighters was sent against Port Moresby yesterday, but the raid even with a force so large as this was practically without effect except for minor damage to aerodrome runways.
Our planes shot down one of the bombers and probably destroyed three others. Three enemy fighters were damaged. Only one of our planes is missing.
This was the heaviest raid on Port Moresby, and the heaviest in the entire zone since the opening attack on Darwin.
Allied planes yesterday attacked shipping in Koepang Bay, Dutch Timor. Direct hits were scored on two transports, and both were probably sun£.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1942, Page 3
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