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Allied Battle Over Convoy Is Most Remarkable Aerial Exploit Of War In PacificALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan, 11—UP)—Allied airmen boosted to 138 the Japanese planes shot down or crippled in four days of blazing action as they pursued the remnants of a battered Japanese convoy fleeing from New Guinea yesterday and scored bomb hits on two more ships, General MacArthur’s headquarters announced today.—. #j.^e annoupneement put anmmtMtm iiK emphatic period to previous re-“WVIIWI1 ports which described the lossesftiMalrnw AttCtlfltaif inflicted on the Japanese in theirwjlBllKCr Assured efforts to land reinforcements tonortheastern New Guinea as one of the most remarkable Allied aerial exploits of the war in the southwest Pacific,The only discordant note in the sweeping Allied successes was the disclosure that Brig. Gen, Kenneth N. Walker of Glendale, Calif., had failed to return from an nreial attack on Rabaul, New Britain, on Jan. 5, when he led a formation of flying fortresses and Liberators which damaged 50,000 tons of enemy shipping and shot down nine Japanese fighters.How many men the Japanese actually succeeded in landing in their efforts to reinforce their garrison at Lae before their convoy turned tail and steamed away from New Guinea Saturday night was not disclosed, but it was evident tha;, whatever success the enemy achieved in this respect had been won at the cost of serious losses to his air strength in this theatre, Indicating how hard the Japanese had been hit, Allied head* quarters reported that American and Australian airmen had met only weak opoisition as they pursued what was left of tha enemy convoy across the Solomon Sea to New Britain yesterday.At least three transports—including a heavily-loaded 14,000-ton troopship which went down with all hands—were definitely reported sunk during the first two days of the engagement, while other vessels were dam-PRICE DANIELKrupp Works HitLONDON, Jan. 11.—W— Essen, site of great Krupp armament works, lay smoking today under the effects of a devastating bombardment by the RAF, which unloaded a great weight of bombs — including two-ton blockbusters’*—on the city Saturday night in the fifth raid on the Ruhr in seven nights.34 JOIN WAACSAN ANTONIO, Jan. II.—lt;yp) Thirty four Southwest Texas women enlisted during the past week in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and have returned home to await orders that will send them to cither Fort Des Moines, Iowa, or Daytona Beach Fla., Col. Ki'nzie B, Edmunds, district recruiting officer, said here today.aged by bomb hits.In addition, Allied headquart era reported yesterday that onetransport had been hit six times and left burning in Lae harbor* that another had been hit three times and that a third had been set afire after being beached.Of the total Japanese planes (Continued on Page 3.)Allied Bombers Strike At Nazi Held Points In North Africa AreaALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA,Jan, 11.—MP)—Allied bombers have struck again at possible junction points for Marshall RomniePs Libyan forces and the Axis army of Tunisia, raiding Gabes, the village of Ke-bili west of that port, and Kairouan, an African air force spokesman announced today.The highlight of the day’s air activity was a one-man bombing attack by Maj. Phillip GeorgeCochran of Erie, Pa,, who leads a P-40 Warhawk fighter group, Alone and carrying one large bomb, he swept over the roof tops of Kairouan and deposited the explosive in the middle of German military headquarters for the area. He reported the headquarters destroyed.On returning from the target he was attacked by a Foeke-Wulf 100. Olthough his plane was shot, up, he held off the German fighter and returned safely to his base.The Tunisian raids followed the first sweep by American bombers from the west against (Continued on Page 3.)
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