NIGHT BOMBARDMENT
JAP BASES IN SOLOMONS
LONDON, July 5. American warships last night bombarded Japanese bases on Kulambangra and New Georgia Islands. Enemy installations at Vila were shelled and so were those at Bairoko on Kula Gulf in New Georgia. This news is given in the latest United States communique following the announcement that United States troops had seized the village of Vura, on Vangunu. Correspondents sum up the general situation as follows: United States forces are quickly throwing a ring around the island of New Georgia. Following the occupation of Rendova
Island, they have occupied a number of other islands in the area. The names of these islands have not yet been given. Dive-bombers have sunk a Japanese supply shi]3 off the coast. '•> At Munday the situation has been described by a spokesman at South Pacific headquarters as "not particularly healthy for the Japanese." Munda airfield is being wOntinually hammered from the air and by coastal batteries on Rendova Island.
It is reported tonight that Hudson bombers of the United States Air Force attacked the Japanese submarine base at Rekata Bay, on Santa Isabel Island which lies east of New Georgia.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1943, Page 5
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192NIGHT BOMBARDMENT Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1943, Page 5
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