PACIFIC WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1942, Page 4

PACIFIC WAR

WQRK OF ALLIED AIRMEN' VITAL UNREMITTING WATCH KEPT ON ENEMY. TWO JAPANESE SUBMARINES CAUGHT NAPPING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. In. good weather and bad, Australian and American reconnaissance planes are carrying out some, of the most arduous and valuable work of the Pacific war, maintaining an unremitting watch on enemy moves in the waters north-east of Australia, says a “Herald” war correspondent. At present this reconnaissance work is a most vital feature of the battle for Australia, some of the work being directed and much of it being carried out by an American Army Air Corps captain, who is one of the greatest reconnaissance flyers in the world. He has shown tremendous personal courage on some of the most vital special reconnaissance flights of the war. Weather conditions in the area under observation, with constant low cloud, make the job most difficult. Enemy submarines are taking advantage of these climatic conditions by cruising on the surface, under low cloud cover, to report our air activity, but in recent days they have learned that it does not always pay. Two R.A.F. Hudson reconnaissance planes recently sighted two Japanese submarines on the surface and dived through clouds to catch the enemy napping. Both the submarines were either destroyed or badly damaged by bombs.