Allied aircraft attacked Japanese shipping in Salamaua Harbor according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 12 March 1942

An item reported that on 10 March 8 American bombers attacked Japanese shipping in Salamaua Harbor [Papua New Guinea] hitting 6 transports with as result 4 set on fire, 1 beached and one sinking. The same day Allied aircraft bombed a transport at the entrance of this harbour and the there located airdrome; the J.I.C.commented that those attacks were similar to the ones reported a day earlier in the press, Summary No. 91.

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Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 92 dated 12 March 1942.