AIR BATTLES OVER WAU
JAPS SHOT OUT OF THE SKY
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Rec. 2.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 8. , "With the greatest array of fighter and bomber strength they had marshalled since the battle of the Lac convoy early in January, the Japanese tried unsuccessfully to force their way through our air screen. Five air battles were fought over Wav in two and a quarter hours. From all these encounters every Allied fighter formation came out without a single loss." This description of Saturday's New Guinea air battle is given by the "Sydney Morning Herald" war correspondent. Of 41 Japanese planes which were shot out of the skies at Wav, 26 are claimed as definitely destroyed and 15 as seriously damaged and probably destroyed. The jungle around Wav was dotted with fires of burning enemy planes. In the great Lac air battle which
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 32, 8 February 1943, Page 5
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 32, 8 February 1943, Page 5
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