SHATTERING ATTACK
BY SIX AMERICAN FIGHTERS FIVE JAPANESE BOMBERS DESTROYED OVER ATTU. SEVEN MORE PROBABLY ACCOUNTED FOR. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, May 25. The United States Navy Department states that United States Army forces continued to advance on Sunday on Attu Island, despite sleet, snow and rain, which handicapped operations. Further details of the attack by six Army Lightnings on 16 Japanese twinengined bombers reveal that five of the latter were definitely destroyed, and that seven in addition probably were destroyed. The remaining four fled. United States Army planes bombed the Japanese main camp in the Kiska area.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1943, Page 4
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103SHATTERING ATTACK Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1943, Page 4
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