NORTH OF AUSTRALIA
Further Bombing Of Enemy Shipping SYDNEY, August 12. Further bombing attacks on enemy shipping off Timor are reported in today’s communique from General. MacArthur’s headquarters. The sinking of a Japanese cargo ship in this area on Mondav afternoon was confirmed by pilots taking part in Tuesday’s raids. The latest attack in the Timor area was carried out by Allied medium bombers, but the rfesults are not known. Medium bombers also scored direct hits on a wharf and buildings at Toeal and in the Kei Islands, about half-way between Timor and the south-western coast of New Guinea. Two of seven Zero fighters which attacked an Allied bombing force north of Samarai in New Guinea were shot down. We lost one plane, and others damaged. The offensive against Rabaul was continued in a night raid on the aerodrome. Bombs fell near the runway.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 270, 13 August 1942, Page 5
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