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(By Telograph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, November 2. Australia-based planes are believed to have sunk or seriously damaged seven more Japanese ships in the third successive night raid on Buin-Faisi area in the northern Solomons. Two waves of heavy and medium bombers dropped 33 tons of bombs, " which is the heaviest load reported since the beginning of these intensive attacks on the Solomons by aircraft of General Mac Arthur's command.
The attacks were pressed home from a low altitude through a formidable curtain of anti-aircraft fire.
In three nights our bombers have thus sunk or damaged 17 enemy vessels in this area.
Accurate observation of the results of the latest attack was not possible, but the headquarters spokesman said today that the vessels which were bombed included warships and merchantmen.
One plane failed to return from the operation, and this is the sole Allied loss in the three nights of sustained attack.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1942, Page 5
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