RAID ON RABAUL
BY FLYING FORTRESSES. NIGHT ATTACKS ON AIR BASES IN SOLOMONS. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, October 18. Allied aircraft of General MacArthur’s South-West Pacific Command have been giving strong support to Vice-Admiral Ghormley’s forces in the Solomon Islands. Fifteen tons of bombs were dropped in a Flying Fortress raid on the main Japanese southward base at Rabaul shortly before dawn today. Widespread damage is believed to _ have been caused, but the details of this and other raids are lacking. The aerodromes at Buka and Buin, in the northern Solomons, have been heavily attacked at night by large formations of bombers. At Buka many fires were started, and at Buin hits were scored on runways among dispersed aircraft. - The main purpose of these raids has undoubtedly been to neutralise the Japanese air strength in the Solomons battle, but attacks aaginst enemy shipping have also been made. At Bum and Shortland Island, Allied offensive reconnaissance units bombed two large Japanese transports. The results could not be observed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1942, Page 3
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