SATURDAY’S RAID

Grey River Argus, 16 June 1942, Page 5

SATURDAY’S RAID

150 Bombs Dropped DARWIN, June 14. The J'apanese, in their sixteenth air raid on Darwin on Saturday, dropped about 150 bombs but did no more damage than pockmark the open ground with crater holes ami set grass alight. The nearest to a casualty was an anti-aircraft sergeant, who was hit on his tin helmet by a piece of falling sharpnel. Darwin had a good warning of the Japanese approach. Despite their height, anti-aircraft gunfire burst among the enemy planes and forced them to break up formations. Each machine got its bombs away as quickly as possible and made for home. The raid was all over in a few seconds. SYDNEY, June 14. A R.A.A.F. ’plane dive-bombed the Japanese submarine, which was mentioned in the communique cabled on Saturday, June 6, from a height of four hundred feet. The captain of the ’plane was Flying Officer J. C. Myles. He said: “The submarine was destroyed. Our bomb found its mark just in front of the conning tower. We circled around for a while; We saw bubbles of oil coming to the surface for about three minutes.”