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Mar042013

3 March 1942

Japanese aircraft again attack Port Moresby and also attack Wyndham & Broome. In New Guinea, RAAF bombers launch an attack on Japanese positions at Gasmata on New Britain Island.

In Broome nine Jap Zeros strafe the port and aerodrome, destroying 20 Allied aircraft and killing about 90 people, including Dutch women and children who had been evacuated from the Dutch East Indies.

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