An item reported that Japanese launches were sighted on the Mambare river, 50 miles north west of Buna, [Papua] New Guinea possible for a landing. A Japanese convoy of 4 transports, 2 destroyers, 1 cruisers and gunboat was attacked without success by Allied bombers. The Japanese lost just 1-3 fighters and 4 more were damaged.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 248 dated 15 August 1942.
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