FOUR ATTACKS MADE
AMERICANS DEFEND BALI
WASHINGTON, February 22.
When American heavy bombers and dive-bombers attacked a Japanese fleet including two cruisers and four or five destroyers which was approaching south-east Bali the bombers scored three hits on one or more of the cruisers, and also two hits on transports, while dive-bombers hit one cruiser and one transport.
Four enemy fighters were shot down. Later, American dive-bombers and fighters resumed the attack and seriously damaged a Japanese cruiser. Four American planes are missing from this attack.
In third and fourth attacks American planes, including Flying Fortresses, scored three hits on a cruiser.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1942, Page 5
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102FOUR ATTACKS MADE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1942, Page 5
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