18 October 1942: a B-25 bombed in error two trawlers of the Small Ships Section that just arrived at Pongani for the first landing on the coast behind the Buna front. 1st Lt. Adam Bruce Fahnestock, head of the Small Ships Section, and a New York
Times correspondent, Byron Darnton, were killed and several other men were wounded.
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