MORE RAIDS
ON JAPANESE PACIFIC BASES PROLONGED ATTACKS ON LAE & SALAMAUA. SOLOMONS ALSO VISITED. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, June 29. A prolonged raid, understood to have lasted several hours, was made by Allied aircraft against the Japanese advanced New Guinea bases at Lae and Salamaua last night. This was the third successive night attack on Lae. The latest communique from Allied headquarters describes the attack as a “harassing raid against enemy troop dispositions.” The communique also reports a limited bombing attack on the wharf area at Tulagi, in the Solomons. All our bombers returned safely from spese operations. There is no mentio’i in the communique of any othei’ air activity.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1942, Page 4
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110MORE RAIDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1942, Page 4
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