HEAVY LOSSES
SUFFERED BY JAPANESE IN RAID ON YUNNAN. AERODROME. AMERICAN BASE IN CHINA (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK. May 16. Warhawks yesterday shot down 15 and probably destroyed 10 Japanese planes raiding an American base at Yunnan aerodrome. Kunming, says the correspondent of the Associated Press of America with the U.S.A.A.F. Sixty planes, including 35 bombers participated in the raid, which was the biggest so far against an American base in China. Inaccurate bombing caused heavy casuaties among civilians in two villages near the target, but only one American was slightly wounded and one Liberator destroyed on the ground.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1943, Page 3
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100HEAVY LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1943, Page 3
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