AIR VICTORY
GAINED BY AMERICANS IN SOLOMONS SIXTEEN ZEROS SHOT DOWN AND TWO MORE PROBABLY DESTROYED. AT COST OF FIVE PLANES. LONDON, May 14. In the South Pacific, American fighters attacked about 20 Japanese Zeros near Russell Island. Sixteen of the Japanese planes were shot down and two more probably destroyed. Five American aircraft were lost.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1943, Page 3
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56AIR VICTORY Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1943, Page 3
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