SHIPPING BOMBED
ENEMY TANKER SUNK (N.Z.P.A. Special Aust. Correspondent)' SYDNEY. January 9. Further toll of Japanese shipping has been taken by Allied aircraft operating in the South-west Pacific area. The main destruction was near Madang, in. Northern New Guinea, where Catalinas at night sank a 5,000-ton. enemy tanker and left a 1,500-tou ship in flames. At Kavieng, New Ireland, which has now been attacked on 17 successive days, other Catalinas bombed a destroyer and a cargo ship. Allied Solomons-based fighters continue their offensive sweeps over (Rabaul, in New Britain. Ten Zeros.were shot down and four others were probably destroyed in the latest' combat. Other Corsairs destroyed two troopladen barges in Blanche Bay, killing or wounding about 100 Japanese. Two of our planes were lost.
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Evening Star, Issue 25069, 10 January 1944, Page 3
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