JAP. AIR RAIDS
On New Guinea Bases
(Rec. 9.10) SYDNEY, June 16. The Japanese, on Tuesday, empJoyed their largest attacking force for some weeks to raid Allied positions in New Guinea. Sixty-six planes took part in two attacks. One force of twenty-seven bombers and thirty fighters attacked three native villages, in the Benabena area, near Madang. The enemy’s precise targets in these raids have not been indicated, but the report states chat some damage was done. It is known that there were emergency landing strips in Benabena area before me "Nine enemy planes made a night raid on Bobodura. They caused slight damage, but no casualties.
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Grey River Argus, 17 June 1943, Page 5
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