UNSUCCESSFUL ATTACK
ON ALLIED SHIPPING IN TIMOR SEA (Rec. 10.40 a.m.) Rugby, Feb. 16. An Australian air communique reports: "Japanese aircraft unsuccessfully attacked Allied shipping in the Timor Sea. The R.A.A.F. carried out a reconnaissance of Japanese-occupied island bases in the Bismarck Archipelago. Small-scale Japanese reconnaissances were carried out on the south coast of Papua on Sunday. No bombs were dropped.”—B.O.W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 17 February 1942, Page 5
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