LONG DISTANCE RAIDS
On Dutch Indies (Rec. 10.5) SYDNEY, Dec. 13. Liberator bombers made the long" est flight of twenty-six hundred miles, yet recorded in a South-west Pacific operation to strike, for a third time, .at the oil refining centre of Balik P'apen in Borneo Large explosions anckjjires resulted. Bank Papen w,as last raided on August 14. Other Liberators attacked the wharf area at Macassar, in Celebes, making a round (flight of 2400 miles. Damaging firfes were started. This was the fifth wai'd on Macassar-
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Grey River Argus, 14 December 1943, Page 5
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85LONG DISTANCE RAIDS Grey River Argus, 14 December 1943, Page 5
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