January 6, 1942
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TUESDAY, 6 JANUARY 1942

JAAF: Japanese bomb collapsed an incomplete shelter killing 31 and wounding others near Battery Geary on Corregidor Island.

IJN: Nine H6K2 Mavis flyingboats bomb Vunakanau Airfield near Rabaul.

RAAF: Two Hudsons from No. 24 Squadron bomb Kapingamarangi Atoll and claim a seaplane destroyed on the slipway.