NINETY-SIX PLANES
LOST BV THE JAPANESE IN SINGLE DAV
EARLY IN SOLOMONS BATTLE. SUPERIORITY OF AMERICAN PILOTS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, September 13. Ninety-six Japanese planes were | shot down in a single day, August 24, when the Japanese attempted a counter-attack in the Solomons, says Mr Clark Lee, the Associated Press of America’s correspondent, who watched the battle from a ship's bridge. “It was a field day for the American pilots,” he said. “Navy airmen shot down 47, marines and Army pilots 21, and anti-aircraft guns 28. The American losses were only 8 pilots missing. The most encouraging feature of the battle was that the Japanese pilots were definitely inferior to those in previous fights over' the Pacific.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1942, Page 4
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