BATTLE PICTURES
TAKEN FROM FIGHTING PLANES NORTH OF NEW GUINEA. SHOWN TO PILOTS FEW HOURS LATER. (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.. Within a few hours of Friday’s big air battle over the northern coast of New Guinea, pilots saw a picture of the encounter on a screen at their hearquarters. The battle was a sevenminute “free for all,” in which a Lockheed and Lightning fighters unit routed a force of 22 Zeros, without loss to themselves. Cameras, synchronised with the firing mechanism, were fitted into the nose of each aircraft. This is believed to be the first time in the South-West Pacific area that films have been used to show our airmen how they shot down their victims. The films, which will be used for instructional purposes, showed a number of clear and unmistakable “kills.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1943, Page 4
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