Hot Reception for Japanese Raiders
(Special Australian Correspondent.) Received Wednesday, 8.50 p.m. SYDNEY. Oct. 28. Nine Japanese bombers raiding Darwin in moonlight early on Tuesday morning encountered the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage ever put up in Australia. The enemy planes were thrown off their objective and jettisoned their bombs harmless! w Although none of the raiders was shot down in the area, it Is believed some were damaged and may not have reached their base. Three Allied raids were made in the past 24 hours. The aerodrome at Dilli was raided by Hudson bombers. At Lae a formation of our Beauflghters carried out a strafing attack, destroying three barges and silencing anti-aircraft positions. One Beaufighter was lost. Our attack bombers strafed the Japanese supply trail from Kokoda to Alola. A spokesman at General Mac Arthur’s Headquarters reports that there has been no change in the land position in the Owen Stanley Ranges. Fighting continues south of Alola with the Allied forces maintaining their pressure.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 256, 29 October 1942, Page 5
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