AUSTRALIAN PLANES
OPERATING FROM LEYTE
Rec 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, November 26 Planes of the Royal Australian Air * orce are now operating for the first time in the Philippines, says a correspondent on Leyte. Their first strike was on Thursday, when Beaufighters now armed with rocket guns successfully attacked small shipping in the Davao Gulf, on the south side of Mindanao Island.
Attacks by the American planes on the airfields on the island continue. In the latest raid Liberators dropped 26 tons on Sasa aerodrome. Mitchells as well as Liberators, hammered aerodromes on Cebu and Negros Islands on the same day The escorting Thunderbolts and Lightnings shot down two enemy planes.
In other areas R.A.A.F. planes were again active. Beaufighters attacked targets m Timor and others severely ra 1 AS£ d,y-?r£houses on Banda Island. R.A.A F Mitchells hit Taberfane, in the Aroe Islands, and Australian-manned Kittyhawks attacked Cabo aerodrome in Dutch New Guinea. Other planes were active against targets at Vogelkop. American Corsairs, Venturas, and Mitchells dropped 66 tons of bombs on Rabaul, Kavieng and Bougainville.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 128, 27 November 1944, Page 5
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