FLIGHTS TO BORNEO

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 2 October 1944, Page 5

FLIGHTS TO BORNEO

CATALINA FLYING BOATS SHIPPING BOMBED AND SUNK OTHER TARGETS IN PHILIPPINES Sydney, Oct. 1. The United States Catalina flyingboats in night patrol missions from South-west Pacific bases have destroyed 15 Japanese ships and crippled seven others. They have also wrecked several barges, luggers and smaller craft. A phenomenal performance was registered by a Catalina which probed as far as Darvel Bay (British North-east Borneo) where a 4000-ton Japanese freighter and three vessels of about 1500 tons were moored alongside a single wharf. Direct bomb hits caused explosions and a fire which spread destroying all four vessels. Meanwhile strafing attacks sank six heavily-laden barges in the bay. Another Catalina dangaged shipping at the Borneo oil port of Papan which was raided for the first time in several months. Other Japanese freighters, mostly under 1000 tons, were attacked in the southern Philippines and Celebes waters. —P.A. Specal Australian Correspondent. RAID ON BALIK PAPAN (Rec. 10.20 a.m.) New York, Oct. 1. Tokio radio stated that 60 Allied planes raided Balik Papan on September 30, of which seven Were shot down. ___________________