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JAPANESE AIR STRENGTH IN S.W. PACIFIC. EFFECTS OF ALLIED RAIDS - ON RABAUL. (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 10.55-a.m.) SYDNEY, February. 8. The incessant bombing of Rabaul’s four aerodromes has seriously impaired Japanese air strength in the SouthWest Pacific. A reconnaissance following on last. Saturday’s, attacks by 150 Solomons based aircraft, showed the fields to contain only about 100 planes, whereas they once housed hundreds. Most of the planes on the fields, after Saturday’s raids, were bombers. Shipping at Rabaul is now only one-third of the tonnage of three months ago. The Japanese are believed to have been forced to rely on small freighters and barges to keep their supply services going.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1944, Page 4
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