JAP SEA BASE
BOMBED NORTH-WEST OF NEW GUINEA.
'(Rec. BJS) SYDNEY, Oct 19. To-day General MacArthur reported the first Allied air attack on ari important Japanese shipping base, Ternate, in the Halmahera' Island group, north-west of Dutch New Guinea. This is the chief port tor inter-island shipping between the Philippines an'd 'the Netherland East Indies and New Guinea. Liberators made a round trip of two-thousand miles to fulfil the mission. The pilots reported having left the area in flames with considerable destruction in the town proper.
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Grey River Argus, 20 October 1943, Page 5
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