AMERICAN BOMBERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 63, 16 March 1942, Page 6

AMERICAN BOMBERS

CO-CPERATE WITH R.A.A.F. | Canberra, March .12. If is now revealed that American heavy bombers are co-operating with the Australians against the Japanese in New Guinea. A war communinque states that eight American bombers took part in the operations on March 10 and dropped 18 tons of explosives on Japanese shipping at Salamaua. Reports reaching Canberra disclose that the spearhead of the Japanese invasion fleet against New Guinea has been broken by the violent, day-long attacks by Allied aircraft, directed at ' Salamaua. Finschhaven, and Rabaul. , It is estimated that 13 Japanese transports have been crippled or destroyed, six at Rabaul and seven at Salamaua. , The object of the attacks, it is explained. is to cause a major disloca- ■ tion in any planned Japanese concen- - tration at wdiat the enemy had in- , tended to make its hopping-off place , to the Australian mainland. j These raids are believed to have j immobilised practically a whole division of Japanese infantry. Facilities for repairing the ships there simply : do not. exist. (