“RAT WARFARE”
AMERICANS FROM WRECKED PLANE PARACHUTING IN BURMA. MURDERED BY JAPANESE. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) NEW DELHI, June 2. Japanese fighters gave a brutal illustration of what the call “rat warfare” when they killed three American airmen parachuting over Burma, after their plane had been crippled. The incident occurred oil May 21, when Japanese zeros shot off the tail of an American bomber returning io its base. The crew baled out and the sole survivor, Sergeant Marvin Backman, and the crews of other bombers, related the sequel. Zeros circled the descending men and the three parachutes collapsed at a height of 5,000 feet, hurtling the men to death. Sergeant Beckman was wounded, but landed in friendly territory and reached a British outpost four days later.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1943, Page 4
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