destroyed and 18 more in an attack
we made on Rabaul. In all the
Japanese lost 32 planes. The Australians
on New Guinea are progressing
and the American landing at
Saidor has met with little
opposition.
5-1-1943. 1.= pm. Frank Philips.
The offensive against military
installations across the Channel
continued during the night after
record attacks during the day.
The bombing of the Northern French
coast goes on without pause.
In the night attacks no aircraft
was lost and during the day we
only lost 5 bombers and one
fighter out of 250 planes employed.
More mines were also laid and
our Mosquitoes were over Berlin and
Western Germany during the day.
Yesterday Liberators and Fortresses
attacked Kiel and Munster. 18
American bombers and 2 fighters
are missing. A small number of
enemy planes dropped a small
number of bombs in South East England
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