SUMBA ATTACKED
BOMBERS' LONG FLIGHT
SYDNEY, June 9,
Flying more than 1400 miles on the round trip,, a small force of General Mac Arthur's Liberators yesterday attacked Japanese shipping at Waingapu, on Sumba Island, in the Netherlands East Indies. They scored two near-misses with 5001b bombs against a 5000-ton cargo vessel, Intense antiaircraft fire* was encountered from ships in the harbour and from shore batteries.
Waingapu may have been the base from which Japanese aircraft last month made two raids on Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia. It has a small airfield and its sheltered harbour waters make it suitable for a seaplane base. Over the Bismarck Sea area a Liberator on reconnaissance sighted and
attacked an enemy convoy 35 miles from Kavieng. No hits were reported. The convoy, comprising four merchantmen of between 4000 and 5000 tons with a gunboat escort, was probably bound for Rabaul.
With the improvement in weather conditions yesterday, Allied aircraft were over eight enemy bases in Dutch New Guinea, Timor, and New Britain.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 136, 10 June 1943, Page 5
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