RAIN OF DEATH
POURED ON JAPANESE IN NEW GUINEA LIBERATORS DROP 220 TONS OF BOMBS. ON AREA NEAR FINSCHHAFEN. LONDON, October 22. In New Guinea Liberator bombers have plastered the Japanese north of Finschhafen with 220 tons of bombs—a record bomb delivery for the South-West Pacific in a single day. A communique from Army Headquarters says the bombers rained destruction on the enemy. In air fighting in the Solomons eleven .enemy aircraft were destroyed over Bougainville Island. An enemy light cruiser was bombed and damaged. Eleven Japanese barges were destroyed in New Britain.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1943, Page 4
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93RAIN OF DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1943, Page 4
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