MANY ENEMY PLANES
DESTROYED BY FLYING FORTRESSES. AT RELATIVELY LIGHT COST. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 22. Flying Fortresses in the Euro- . pean and Pacific theatres shot down 130 enemy planes, probably destroyed 92 and damaged 82 between August 15 and October 15. The Secretary for War (Mr Stimson) announced that in the same period only six Fortresses were lost. In the Pacific area the Flying Fortresses shot down 45 enemy planes, with 13 probables and five damaged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1942, Page 4
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