NATIVE HURLS SPEAR
LOW-FLYING BOMBER “NEAR MISS” SCORED (Special Australian Correspondent.) (10 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 3. The “light anti-aircraft fire” reported by a United States bomber pilot returning .to an Allied base recently, was probably the most unusual encountered in this war. The bomber was on its way to its base from a mission over Lae and Salamaua and was flying low to avoid a thick ceiling ,of clouds when it passed over several native canoes. “We were flying so low that we nearly hit them,” said the pilot. “I think they mistook us for Japanese. Some of the natives dived into the sea, but one old warrior stood up and threw his fishing spear at us. It was a near miss.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20826, 3 July 1942, Page 3
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