RABAUL AIR BATTLE
JAPS LOSE SIX PLANES. (Rec. 11.5) SYDNEY, Jan. 6. Air actions over New Britain and New Guinea were reported in General MacArthur’s communique today. They cost the Japanese sixteen planes' shot down. Five others were probably destroyed. The main ones of these enemy air losses were again inflicted over Rabaul. Allied Solomons-based fighters shot down there six Zeros. Five others probably were destroyed. This was in a sweep over the Rapopo aerodrome. Heavy units from the Solomons bombed the harbour at Kavieng. They shot down three out of nineteen Japanese interceptor planes. The air actions reported in tne latest South-west Pacific communique have cost the allies four planes.
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Grey River Argus, 7 January 1944, Page 5
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