Japs Use Wooden Bullets, Firecrackers On Bougainville
(Special) SYDNEY, March IG. Wooden bullets and firecrackers!' were among the weapons used by the Japanese in their costly attempt to drive the American forces from their beachhead at Empress Augusta Bay, on Bougainville, in the Solomons Islands. Enemy killed in the three days’ fighting on the beachhead perimeter exceeded 1000.
A lull has now occurred in the fighting.
Crude wooden bullets fashioned from jungle woods were used by snipers who infiltrated the American positions. For ranges up to about 100 yards a wooden buliet is fairly accurate.
War correspondents in the area report that examination of Japanese killed in the desperate assaults against the American positions, shows enemy troops still to be well fed and well equipped. They are. however, cut off from further supplies.
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Northern Advocate, 16 March 1944, Page 5
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