AERIAL SUPPORT
GENERAL MacARTHUR’S PLANES
SYDNEY, Oct. 22.
Referring to the fighting near Finschhafen, General MacArthur’s communique states: Both sides are receiving aerial support. During the night 30 Japanese planes attacked our rear area, causing minor damage and casualties. During the day oul fighters intercepted six escorted enemy bombers, shooting down four, as well as one fighter, and probably destroying another two bombers. We lost one plane, but the pilot is safe. “ In widespread air actions throughout the South and South-west Pacific, 23 Japanese aircraft have been destroyed and several others probably destroyed or damaged. Off Dutch New Guinea our heavy bombers sank a 4500-ton freighter transport with two direct hits. When one of our heavy reconnaissance units was attacked over the Bismarck Sea by a total of 22 Japanese fighters, it destroyed three, probably destroyed two others, and damaged three.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25364, 23 October 1943, Page 5
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141AERIAL SUPPORT Otago Daily Times, Issue 25364, 23 October 1943, Page 5
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