SMASHING BLOWS
ANOTHER ALLIED RAID ON RABAUL NIGHT ATTACK ON ENEMY WARSHIPS DESTROYER PROBABLY SUNK (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. In another smashing raid on Rabaul, General MacArthur’s aircraft destroyed 45 Japanese planes and probably destroyed 18 others. Our heavy bombers, with a strong fighter escort, concentrated a midday attack against the Vunakanau aerodreve, dropping 115 tons of explosives. Twenty aircraft were destroyed on the ground, with five more probably destroyed. Of 40 intercepting enemy fighters, 25 were shot down and 13 others probably were destroyed. We lost four planes. North of New Britain, in the Vitu Islands, one of our heavy reconnaissance bombers made a night attack on an enemy cruiser and two destroyers. Two direct hits and a near miss with I,ooolb bombs probably sank one destroyer and damaged the other. On Choiseul, in the Northern Solomons, Allied ground forces which landed on Thursday Island are encountering enemy opposition between Voza and Vagara.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1943, Page 4
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