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JAPANESE AIRMEN LAND ON CHINESE FIELD FIVE PLANES SET ON FIRE. SUCCESS CLAIMED IN BATTLE OVER NANCHANG. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 12.15 p.m.) SHANGHAI, July 18. Japanese planes made a sudden landing in the Nanchang Air Field, in which five Chinese planes were on the ground, and set them on fire. The raiders escaped before the defenders had recovered • from their surprise. Japanese fighters engaged fifteen Chinese airmen above Nanchang. shot down and destroyed eight, and sent seven others to the ground, losing only one machine.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1938, Page 6
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