AIR OPERATIONS
IN NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN ACTIVITIES. BOMBER AND THREE ZEROS SHOT DOWN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY, March 11. A United States Navy communique states: “In the North Pacific on Tuesday a force of Mitchell medium bombers and. Liberator heavy bombers, with a Lightning escort, bombed Japanese positions at Kiska. Hits were observed in the camp area. All the American planes returned. In the South Pacific, on Wednesday, Liberators carried out minor bombing attacks on Japanese positions at Kahili, in Bougainville Island, and at Munda and Vila, in the Central Solomons. The results were not observed. Later in the day a large force of Avenger tor-pedo-bombers, Dauntless dive-bombers and Wildcat fighters attacked Vila and the southern coast of Kolonbangara Island. Several large fires were started. “On the same afternoon, ten enemy bombers, with an escort of twelve Zeros, were intercepted north-west of Guadalcanal, and one bomber and three Zeros were shot down. No American planes were lost?
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1943, Page 4
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