TOLL OF SHIPPING
JAPANESE VESSELS HIT SYDNEY, November 17. A Japanese transport of 8000 tons das been sunk and another large merchant vessel severely damaged in a night attack on Raboul harbour by General McArthur’s bombers. Two direct hits from mast height were scored on the transport. A 9000ton enemy cargo ship hit off New Ireland was beached. Following up their earliest record strike, when 223 tons of explosives were dropped, our bombers also made further heavy attacks against the enemy’s forward base area around Alexishafen, North-east New Guinea. Aerodromes were the principal objectives and 76 tons of bombs were dropped in a damaging blow. The Japanese lost 20 planes shot down, with six others probably destroyed, when they attempted counter-blows against the Allies’ forward New Guinea airfields at Nadzam and Gusap. Our intercepting fighters suffered only light losses.
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Waikato Times, Volume 193, Issue 22198, 18 November 1943, Page 5
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139TOLL OF SHIPPING Waikato Times, Volume 193, Issue 22198, 18 November 1943, Page 5
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