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EFFORT THAT FAILED

AMERICAN AIR OUTPOST IN CHINA ATTACKED BY 119 JAPANESE PLANES. SEVENTEEN ENEMY MACHINES DESTROYED. LONDON, August 3. An American communique from Chungking states that an. American air outpost in China was recently raided by a special force of expert Japanese fighter pilots, who tried to wipe out the port. ( Ono'air battle lasted for 36 hours. A force of 119 enemy raiders tried to break up the defences. Seventeen were destroyed and four others are claimed as probbales. Another American force devastated an enemy airfield in Central Burma to such an extent that the Japanese will no longer be able to use it against the Allied supply line from India to China.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1942, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
114

EFFORT THAT FAILED Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1942, Page 3

EFFORT THAT FAILED Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1942, Page 3

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