Current Events September 13, 1942; NEW GUINEA, SOLOMONS, BUNA BLASTED BY ALLIED BOMBS/

                 Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1942


37 More Jap Planes Destroyed By U.S.,
Allied Airmen in New Guinea. Solomons
Buna, Invasion Base Blasted
In Four Bombing Attacks;
17 Grounded Ships Smashed
By MURLIN SPENCER
GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia.
Sept. 13 (Sunday)—(AP)—Allied heavy and medium bombers
escorted by fighters, struck one of the heaviest blows yet del-
ivered in the Pacific yesterday when they blasted the Jap-
anese invasion base, Buna, in Eastern New Guinea with 26
tons of bombs and more than 28,000 rounds of cannon and ma-
chine gun fire, a communique;
said today.
In four bombing attacks, followed
by seven strafing runs
the Allied airmen destroyed at-
least 17 Japanese planes on the
ground, in dispersal bays and on the
runway of an airdrome from which
the enemy had been operating in
the drive against Port Moresby.

A.A. GUNS SILENCED
ENEMY LOSSES
MOUNTING AT
GUADALCANAL
WASHINGTON. Sept. I2--(AP)—
Paying a high, price in planes and
pilots, the Japanese are still trying
unsuccessfully to dislodge the American
forces in the Solomons, the Navy
reported tonight, and losing
better than one out of every five
bombers they said over.
The Japanese sent two waves of
25 bombers and one of 17 against the
Guadalcanal installations on Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday. Of
these 79 bombers, 15 were destroyed,
along with five of the Zero fighters
supposed to protect them, bringing
to 143 the number of aircraft the
Japanese have lost In the Solomons
fighting.
     AMERICANS BAG 16
Of the latest bag of 30, American
fighter planes accounted .for at-
least 16; whether the other four
also were downed by planes or by
anti-aircraft was not specified. And
if the Americans suffered any
losses in these aerial combats, they
were not reported.