SIX MESSERSCHMITTS
DESTROYED OVER NEW GUINEA FIRST REPORTED USE BY JAPANESE. IN SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC AREA. (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. From New Guinea it is revealed that six Messerschmitts 109 were among the 19 Japanese fighters shot down ovei the R.amu Valley on Thursday by American Lightning fighters. Though it has long been known that Japan was making Messerschmitts under German guidance, this is the first time they have been reported in the South-West Pacific area. For the first time, too, Japanese pilots parachuted from their planes in numbers when their aircraft were destroyed during the big battle.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1943, Page 4
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