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NEW JAPANESE FIGHTERS IN CHINA AMERICANS SHOOT DOWN FOUR. AND PROBABLY FIVE OTHERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) CHUNGKING, July 31. American interception planes shot down four Japanese fighters, and probably destroyed five others, during an unsuccessful Japanese attempt to raid Hengyang Aerodrome. The Japanese fighters were of the new Zero type, believed to have been brought to China especially to cope with the Americans, but their first engagement was a failure, as all the Japanese bombers fled when the escort was engaged, The Americans lost one plane, but the pilot was saved.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1942, Page 4
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