AIR BATTLE
GREAT SUCCESS CLAIMED BY JAPANESE DESTRUCTION OF 51 CHINESE MACHINES. WITH LOSS OF ONLY ONE PLANE. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. (Recd This Day, 12.20 p.m.) SHANGHAI, July 4. Fifty Japanese planes, dropping hundreds of bombs in an effort to destroy the Nanchang Air Base, engaged in a fierce air battle, in which they claim to have sent down 51 Chinese machines, representing almost the entire front line, in furious dog-fights. They also claim to have demolished old and new aerodromes, losing only one plane.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 8
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86AIR BATTLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 8
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