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which place lies under our continual fire.
Tuesday night Maribor near the
Austrian border in Yugoslavia was
bombed. Durazzo was also attacked
yesterday. 4 enemy planes were destroyed.
We lost one plane but its pilot is safe.
On enemy patrol craft in the Mediterranean
and two schooners in the Adriatic
were sunk by our light naval craft.
Further details are now known about
the American operations against the
Marshall Islands. The best airfield in
the island has been captured by the
Americans who have also captured
several islands. Brisk machine gun-
and mortar fire from the Japanese is
met. The Americans are now using
artillery in their operations.
Rear Admiral Turner, terrible
Turner as he is called, is the man who
leads the operations and he also led the
attacks against Guadalcanal and
the Gilbert Islands. Enemy resistance
in the air is decreasing to some extent.
On New Guinea the Japanese who
have been trapped between the American
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