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aerodrome at lae fighters shot down enemy lost initiative jßecd. 11.30 p.m.) CANBERRA, April 15 The bomb-battered Lae aerodrome in New Guinea received . another pounding yesterday by powerful Allied air squadrons. Large fires fiared up among the buildings and a number of high explosives fell among grounded enemy aircraft. Australian fighter pilots were engaged in dogfights with Japanese pilots, but the latter were outfought and outmanoeuvred, with the result that two enemy aeroplanes were shot down and ofie was damaged. The enemy has completely lost the initiative in this area. More than 60 Japanese aeroplanes have been de•troyed or rendered unserviceable either by bombs 'or lighters within the past 23 days. Significant, too, is the absence of the Japanese reprisal bombings of Port Moresby, which hitherto have regularly followed attacks against their bases at Rajbaul, Gasmata, Salamaua and Lae.-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24250, 16 April 1942, Page 7
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