Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-06-26 | Page 1 | Allied Planes Lash Nip Front

ALLIED PLANES LASH NIP FRONT FRONT- First Blow for Control Of Pacific Sky Struck MELBOURNE June 26 UP UP- UP General D Do Douglas 0 u g 1 a s MacArthurs MacArthur's planes in one of the heaviest aerial assaults ever launched in th the southwest Pacific truck struck the first blow Friday in a fight for control of these southern skies Operating over a mile 2000 front American and Australian airmen raided Dili Dill in Timor Island of the northwest invasion zone and in New Britain island of the northeast zone They spread ruin through the target areas smashing airdromes grounded planes barracks and supply dumps and started fires that plane crews saw from 60 miles away as they flew home home- ward In addition to the main raids allied allied- planes successfully attacked enemy troop quarters at Salam au a on the north coast of New G Guinea inea and drove off ff a determined force of Jap Japanese nes zero fighter fight r planes which a attempted t to raid Port Moresby the allied advanced base on the New Guinea south coast MacArthur announced in his that the allies ca came e through this big series of engagements engagements engagements engage engage- ments without loss Four all allied e planes were hit by zero machine gun bullets in the savage Port Moresby dogfight but and none w was s damaged seriously at least five zeroes staggered off with serious damage probably to crash in the mountainous New Guinea interi interior r. r No doubt was held here that the allied raids on Dill Dili and opened a finish fight Continued n Page Six Column Six ALLIES HIT NIPS IN VAST RAIDS Continued from Page One on a scale never seen in the Antipodes Antipodes Antipodes Anti Anti- podes for supremacy of the air Both sides had been organizing for it For four days allied and Japanese planes had been conducting conducting conducting con con- ducting aerial recon reconnaissance n a is s san a n c e marking the final preparation and MacArthur then hit first and hard Seizing the initiative in the dark early hours of Friday morning one great fleet of allied planes probably including Boeing Flying Fortresses and great Consolidated B 24 bombers set out for the mile flights to Dili and from their secret bases At Dili Dilion on the Portuguese end of Portuguese Dutch-Portuguese Timor the allied planes roared in at low altitude altitude altitude alti alti- tude and scored direct hits with their biggest bombs on enemy occupied buildings Great fires blazed as they smashed bomb after bomb on their targets In a similar night attack allied planes concentrated on the enemy airdrome runway plane dispersal areas and building areas of the great base They bo bombed bed at t will wiH waiting g vainly for the whine of enemy f fighter plane motors and returned with their bomb racks empty looking back 60 miles at the fires they had started