INTENSE AERIAL ACTIVITY

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXII, Issue 15242, 7 January 1943, Page 3

INTENSE AERIAL ACTIVITY

IN AND AROUND SOLOMONS. (Received 10.45- a.m.) Official Wireless ) RUGBY, Jan. 0. A Washington naval communique, states: * ‘During darkness ,i u -the ca-ily hours of Tuesday, a United States task force of seven units successfully bombarded tile Japanese airfield at Munda, New Georg l ;a Island. As the task force retired, it way attacked by Japanese dive-bomb-ers I our W ildcat lignite i's shot down lour enemy dive-bombers and probaiJy destroyed two more. All the Wildcats returned safely after the remaining enemy planes had wiv». drawn. Marauders and medium bombers later attacked enemy installations at Munda. but the results wore not observed.

Dußingr the .aiternioom, Flying Fortresses. escorted by Lightning fighters. attacked an eiieniv heavy cruiser at Brain, the results v ere not seryed but our fighter, s were attacked by 25 Zero fighters and fioattype biplanes, three of these enemy plane.s being shot down and two others probably destroyed. Two v t our fighters \ver e lost. Flying Fortresses attacked and scored a bomb hit on a Japanese transjxirt in the Short]and Island area. During the day ,84 Japanese were killed in" mopp’ng run uporattiojp.s in the Mount Afiten sector of Guadalcanal : 1