HEAVILY ASSAULTED
KEY JAPANESE BASES
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, February 16. Heavy aerial assaults were made on seven Japanese bases in the South-west Pacific area yesterday. About 70 bombers took part in these attacks, the principal objectives being Rabaul, in New Britain, Lac, in New Guinea, Dobo, in the Aru Islands, and Ambon, in Amboina. Not a single plane was lost. The day's operations are believed to constitute a South-west Pacific record for the number of bombers employed.
All the bases mentioned have been pounded for several weeks past. For the second successive night Allied bombers made their biggest effort against the key enemy base at- Rabaul. Striking in two waves, Flying Fortresses dropped about 40 tons of high explosives and 1500 incendiaries in attacks lasting two hours. FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS. . The first wave of Fortresses concentrated on the north and north-eastern sides of Simpson's Harbour and the second flight on the west side. Large fires raged.all round the harbour and explosions occurred in ammunition dumps near Toboi whai-f. The town was a mass of flames when our bombers left. A single Fortress which began the
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1943, Page 5
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189HEAVILY ASSAULTED Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1943, Page 5
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