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Sunday 28 April 2024

Allied aircraft attacking Japanese ships at Rabaul according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 21 April 1942

An item reported an Allied air attack on Rabaul [Papua New Guinea] on 18 April scoring one direct hit and two near misses on two transports and probably damaging wharfs and building the port. Three flying boats were damaged. The next day was a direct hit and a near miss scored on a vessel in the port [the converted seaplane tender Kenjo Maru].

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 132 dated 21 April 1942

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