WON BY UNITED STATES AIRMEN IN SOLOMONS
Seventy-Seven Japanese Aircraft Shot Down AGAINST LOSS OF SIX AMERICAN MACHINES BATTLE FOUGHT OVER GUADALCANAL LONDON, .June 17. United States airmen yesterday scored one of their greatest victories of the Pacific war, when they shot down 77 Japanese aircraft for the loss of only six of their own. The action took place over Guadalcanal, in the Solomons. The United States Navy Department states that 32 bombers and 45 Zero fighters were shot down, a total of 77 enemy machines. The full size of the Japanese force making the attack will not be known until further details come from Guadalcanal. Elsewhere in the South Pacific American dive-bombers and fighters attacked Japanese positions, in western New Georgia Island and on another island. In the. Aleutians, American medium, bombers renewed the attack on the Japanese at Kiska. Hits were scored on the main camp there.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1943, Page 3
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