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MOUNTED IN MITCHELL BOMBERS CAPABLE OF SINKING MERCHANT SHIPS (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Some of the Mitchell medium bombers which attacked Wewak, in NorthEast New Guinea, on Friday were equipped with 75-millimetre cannon. A gun, mounted in the nose of the plane, fires a 131 b shell with devastating accuracy at long ranges. Such equipment has been in use for some time in the South-West Pacific, but has been on the secret list. Merchant vessels have been sunk after strafing attacks with this gun.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 4
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93POWERFUL GUN Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 4
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