BURIAL IN JAPAN
Super-Fortress Airmen
(Received June 22, 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 21. . “Burial services were held on Monday for the crew of super-Fortresses shot down at Yawata,” says Tokio official radio. Notwithstanding the fact that American flyers in the past have perpetuated many cowardly and inhumane acts against Japan, the funeral attendants bowed in deep reverence to these unfortunate airmen who didd in action. The super-Fortresses are equipped with “pressurized cabins” enabling the crews to operate without oxygen masks at altitudes of 40,000 ft. and higher, states the War Department. However, oxygen is carried as a precaution against the destruction of the pressure system which compresses the air in the cabin through the use of superchargers. The superFortresses by virtue of specially designed wings, are able to take off and land within a remarkably short distance.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 228, 23 June 1944, Page 5
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138BURIAL IN JAPAN Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 228, 23 June 1944, Page 5
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