1943 NEW GUINEA / DEFENCE: World War II: Australian aircraft attack Japanese targets in New Guinea

Date: 31st May 1943

Location: LAE SECTOR, NR. MADANG, NEW GUINEA LAE SECTOR, NEW GUINEA

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

NEW GUNIEA: Nr Madang: Lae Sector:

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GV eight Boston and Beaufighter planes in air

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Pilot, two planes in front

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AERIAL (AIR VIEW) Lae Sector of New Guinea

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Close up propeller of plane flying over jungle

AERIAL (AIR VIEW) from plane of machine gun bursts in water along coast

Close up pilot in plane

AERIAL (AIR VIEW) from plane as it machine guns Japanese huts near Madang

AERIAL (AIR VIEW) from plane of Japanese hut burning

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Beaufighter in air

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Close up man pressing bomb release button in plane

AERIAL (AIR VIEW) from plane of bombs dropping and exploding

Close up pilot in plane

AERIAL (AIR VIEW) from plane flying over bombs exploding in field

Pilot in cockpit

AERIAL (AIR VIEW) from plane flying over bombed airfield showing bomb holes in ground and damaged aircraft

AERIAL (AIR VIEW) from plane flying over wrecked transport barges on beach

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TRACKING SHOT wrecked Japanese ship lying on side

AERIAL (AIR VIEW) Boston bombers flying over New Guinea

British Empire; Airforce - Active; World War II in the Far East

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