THE' BISMARCK TRIBUNE
BISMARCK, N. D., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1942
Allies Hit Fiercely at Munda
After Cleaning up Buna Area
Death Blow Yanks
Pour Bombs on
New Jap Airdrome
NEW GUINEA— (AP) —
Allied troops held Buna Tuesday
after infantry stormed in
on the village following a violent
mortar barrage and Ali
lied airmen swarmed north to
I turn back a heavy force of
cruisers and destroyers attempting
to land new forces in
Papuan New Guinea.
A headquarters communique said
the village fell Tuesday morning.
(Dispatches from New Guinea to
London said United States soldiers
took the place.)
Yanks Bomb Jap Air
Base at Munda 5 Times
WASHINGTON— UP) —The
I navy announced Tuesday that
American air forces in the
South Pacific had poured more
bombs on the Japanese air base
at Munda on New Georgia Island
on Dec. 14, the fifth day of
such attacks.
The text of navy communique
No 220 follows:
South Pacific: (All dates are
east longitude.)
1. On Dec. 14 U. S airforces
continued to attack the Japanese
installations and airfield
which are being constructed in
the Munda area of New Georgia
island.
(a) Seven army "Plying
Fortresses" (Boeing B-17) attacked
the area during the morn-
Ing.
(b) Later in the day a striking
force of Douglas "Dauntless"
dive bombers and Grumman
"Wildcat" fighters attacked the
same objectives.
(c) No enemy air opposition
was encountered during either
attack.
Japs Claim Blasting
44 Allied Planes
TOKYO (From Japanese Broadcasts)
— (AP) — Japanese imperial
headquarters said Tuesday that in
the period from Nov. 24 to December
8 their naval air units had shot
down or destroyed on the ground
44 Allied planes and that they had
sank two patrol vessels and two
transports in the are* near Buna,
New Guinea.
(These claims were without Allied
confirmation)
The announcement added that
during the same period nine Japanese
planes failed to return from
their missions, some of them having
dived deliberately into their objectives.
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