AIR SUCCESSES
WON BY AMERICANS IN CHINA & SOLOMONS. AGAINST STRONGER ENEMY FORMATIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, April 26. American aircraft have outfought superior Japanese forces in China and in the Solomons. When the Japanese tried to raid a Chinese airfield Afiierican fighters, although outnumbered by two to one, shot down five of the raiders and probably destroyed another four. Near Guadalcanal, in the Solomons, four American fighters attacked a flight xsf 10 bombers and 20 fighters. They shot down five Zeros for the loss of two planes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1943, Page 3
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88AIR SUCCESSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1943, Page 3
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