U.S. PLANES ALSO AID DUTCH
Five Bombers Destroy Nine Fighters ATTACK IN CELEBES LONDON, January 19. It is officially announced in Washington that five American Army bombers on January 17 attacked an enemy flying-field at Manado (one of the first ipoints captured by the Japanese in their invasion of north-east Celebes). After several bombs had been dropped on the field with undertermined results, the planes encountered a formation of Japanese interceptor planes. In the ensuing fight nine enemy planes were shot down. Two of the American bombers are missing, and a third was damaged, with four members of the crew wounded. According to Tokib, the Dutch are still resisting in north-east Celebes.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 99, 21 January 1942, Page 7
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