ON HALMAHERA
RECORD LEVEL BOMBING T? P# j a L Auatrft,ia n Correspondent —N.Z.P.A.) a C u- j llO p ' m * Sydney. Aug. 23. Allied neutralising air raids on HaJmahera, stepping stone to the Philippines reached a record level on Monday with a 135-ton strike at airfields and ground defences. Attacking Liberators and Mitchells destroyed or seriously damaged eight parked planes on Kaoe aerodrome and scored many hits on motor transport, as well as on store and bivouac areas. Again the Japanese had no aerial defence but their anti-aircraft barrage was a powerful one. Liberators on Sunday night dropped bombs on the town of Davao, chief port of Mindanao, southern island of the Philippines. In Davao Gulf an 8000-ton enemy merchantman was damaged by near misses.
The destruction of six Japanese coastal craft in the waters north of Australia is also reported by General MacArthur's commui>que to-day.
The only news of land fighting in the South-west Pacific Theatre comes from Biak Island, Dutch New Guinea, where Japanese losses now total 5041 killed and captured. American forces last week made a new landing on Biak to complete mopping-up operations there.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 202, 24 August 1944, Page 5
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