ATTACKS ON WEWAK
MANY TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, June 6. In eight days 74 tons of Allied bombs have been dropped in four attacks on Wewak, the most important Japanese air centre in New Guinea. In the latest raid made by Flying Fortresses and Liberators early on Friday morning our planes delivered 18 tons of high explosive, fragmentation and incendiary bombs on the enemy's bomber aerodrome at Wewak and nearby fighter strips at But, Boram and Dagua. It is believed that many grounded aircraft have been destroyed in these raids.
Storm conditions and heavy clouds have made enemy targets in the entire Solomons sea area hard to find but our bombers used a break in the clouds to press home the latest attack against Wewak. Conditions in this area worsened on Saturday and General MacArthur’s communique today reports that air operations over the entire north-eastern sector of the South-West Pacific were limited to reconnaissance. Several light raids have been made in the past 48 hours on Japanese targets north of Australia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1943, Page 3
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