DUTCH BOMBERS
IN ACTION AGAINST JAPANESE. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A Netherlands East Indies Army bombing squadron is now' in action against the Japanese in the South-West Pacific. Their Mitchell medium bombers are reinforcing United States and Australian bombing attacks on Japanese shipping and installations north of Australia. All the pilots and bombardiers and most of the technicians are Netherlanders or Indonesians, who fought the Japanese for three months in the Netherlands East Indies. Some of the gunners and ground staff are Australians.
It is announced that Vice-Admiral Sir Conrad Helfrich, Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands forces in the Far East, will arrive in Australia soon.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1943, Page 4
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