SUCCESSFUL ATTACK
N.Z. Corsairs On Tobago (R.N.Z.A.F. O'fficial News SerVice.) BOUGAINVILLE, June 12 On (heir first mission as lighter-bomb-ers RNZA.F. Corsairs scored a signal success when their 1000-pound bombs struck an important Japanese P ui npnio station and nearby buildings on southern BLetbV’Fiight Lieutenant P. K. McNab'of Auckland, the Corsairs were sent to attack the pumping station in the Tabago area which supplies water for extensive gardens forming i mPof tant part of the enemy s food supplies. Peeling oft at 10,000 feet, the Corsairs flashed down in a steep dive at a speed approaching 400 miles an hour. 1 The first bomb failed to. A the second, dropped by F . lyin S Officer A. G Pierard of Palmerston North, hit a large building housing the pumping machinery fairly in the centre. Ifragments flew high in the air and the build ing was completely disintegrated by a further explosion, probably ot Diesel oil.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 221, 15 June 1944, Page 5
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