Buna Devastated By Allied Planes’ Terrific Fire
(Rec. 2 p.m. Spec.) SYDNEY. Dec. 18. A statement just issued by Lieuten-ant-General Kenney’s Allied Air Force Headquarters in New Guinea shows that our fighters and bombers last Monday made 134 sorties against a convoy and landed troops. Planes peppered the Japanese with 150,000 rounds of cannon and machinegun fire, and dropped 54 tons of bombs. In 34 battles with Japanese air escorts, Allied planes shot down one bomber and 13 Zeros and damaged five other Zeros. Jap. Timetable Upset Ninety-six of the sorties were against barges, stores and personnel. “A review of all operational reports makes it clear that the shattering force of the Allied attack upset the Japanese timetable and threw them into confuion,” says the statement. "Today there is a forlorn stretch of foreshore around the scene of the landing. There are broken barges, smashed and burned up supplies, burned out native huts, and no enemy activity.
"Long freshly made earth mounds indicate the burial of the dead."
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1942, Page 5
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