NAVY OUTNUMBERED IN ACTIONS
Pacific Observer’s Claim
(Received September 6, 8.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September,.s. Representative Eugene Worley, who is returning to Congress after eight months’ duty with the navy in Hawaii and Australia, declared that two things were plentiful in the Pacific war zone: American courage and Japanese fighters. He asserted that the American troops were outnumbered, and the navy was invariably forced to overcome odds in its encounters with the enemy fleet. He added that. American fighter planes were inferior in many respects to the Zeros. “The American bombers are more than a match for anything the Japanese have,” he said, “but our boys in ' tlie pursuit planes have to wait for tlie Zeros to come down to their altitude before they can get a crack at them. I am determined to see that these boys get equipment to put them on even terms with the Japanese.”
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 6
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148NAVY OUTNUMBERED IN ACTIONS Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 6
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