CHILD HIT BY BOMB
FIRST AUSTRALIAN CIVILIAN CASUALTY
(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) . SYDNEY, August 2. The first civilian air-raid casualty on Australia's east coast was the 2s-year-old daughter of Italian-born sugar cane growers, living near Mossman, Queensland, where a Japanese plane jettisoned a bomb last week. The child is in hospital wtih a fractured skull, but is now out of danger. The bomb fell 30 yards from the family's galvanised iron cottage, and smashed furniture and fittings. A bomb fragment went through the interior walls and struck the child, who was sleeping in her cot. Kjttyhawk pilots who shot down two enemy bombers and seven Zeros over Darwin on Thursday, losing only one Allied machine, say that no Japanese pilot was seen to parachute. This confirms the theory that Japanese pilots are under an order not to bail out over enemy territory. Japanese fighter pilots whose planes have been shot down over, their own bases have been known to parachute.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 29, 3 August 1942, Page 5
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