PURPOSEFUL BLOWS
STRUCK BY AMERICAN BOMBERS IN NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC. ONE AIRCRAFT LOST IN ALEUTIANS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.47 a.m.) RUGBY, Apri 11. A United States Navy Department communique states: “In the North Pacific on the morning of March 30, Lightnings attacked Japanese positions at Kiska. Early in the afternoon Army Liberators, escorted by Lightnings, attacked Japanese positions at Holtz Bay, on Attu Island. All' the United States planes returned safely. “Later in the afternoon, Liberators, escorted by Lightnings, attacked the main Japanese camp in the Kiska area. One United States bomber was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. “In the South Pacific, on Tuesday afternoon, a force of Dauntless divebombers, escorted by Wildcats, attacked Japanese installations at Munda. Hits were scored and fires started. The United States planes returned safely.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1943, Page 4
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