TARGETS FOR PLANES
ALLIED AJTACKS COVER
WIDE AREA
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, ttecember 27. Allied aircraft of the South-west Pacific Command were active over a wide area on Boxing Day; Apart from shooting down eight Zeros over Buna/ they attacked targets at many points along the 1200-mile arc north and north-east of Australia. A 6000-ton cargo vessel, bombed off the-north-coast "of Timor, received a direct hit on the bridge. In this sector, the new Japanese airfield at Fuiloro was again -strafed, grounded aircraft being destroyed. Supply installations at Laivai were attacked. ■When 12 Zeros intercepted an Allied. reconnaissance unit near the coast of I New Britain, three jwers shot down j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1942, Page 5
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114TARGETS FOR PLANES Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1942, Page 5
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