Late News BIG ALLIED FORCE OVER LAE
j Enemy Initiative Lost Locally NO REPRISAL RAIDS (Bv Telegrn ph. — Press Asrfii. —Co|.y right. > (Received April 16, 1.40 a.in.) CANBERRA. April 15. Bomb-battered Lae aerodrome, t:> New Guinea, received another pounding yesterday by powerful Allied air squadrons. Large fires flared up among the buildings, and a number of high exI jilosive bombs fell among grounded i enemy aircraft. I Australian fighter pilots engaged tn ■ dogfights witii Japanese Pilots, but the I enemy were outfought and outmanoeuvred. resulting in two enemy planes being shot down and one damaged. The enemy has completely lost the initiative in this area. More than 00 Japanese planes have been destroy'd or rendered unserviceable either ,by bombs or fighters within the past 2., days. Significant, too. is the absem-o ' of Japanese reprisal bombings of Port Moresby, which hitherto have regularly followed attacks against their bases at Rabaul. Gasmata. Salainaua and Lae.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 171, 16 April 1942, Page 6
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