“SECRET WEAPON”
YOUNG U.S. AIRMAN’S JOKE ABUSE FOR HIRO HITO Just to make Japanese searchlight men and A.A. gunners “hopping mad,” a young American pilot over Rabaul one night threw overboard a roll of toilet paper. The paper streamed out in the glare of the searchlights, and more antiaircraft guns went into operation. Then
the pilot Morsed insulting messages tc Emperor Hirohito with his landing lights. His crew caught the idea and threw down empty bottles. The pilot explained that a little earlier he had been kept up all night by a wandering Japanese pilot, and to even the score he had flown his machine over Babaul from midnight until dawn.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3245, 29 March 1943, Page 8
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111“SECRET WEAPON” Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3245, 29 March 1943, Page 8
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