Gerry Wilmot, the Canadian often heard in programmes going out from the 8.8. C., told the Canadian forces in Britain of a new trick used by Canadian and United States airmen against the Japanese. It appears that the Japanese have a superstitious fear of the maple leaf. They associate it with death and disaster. And the maple leaf is, of course, Canada’s national emblem. So the flying men are dropping numbers of imitation maple leaves which carry a warning printed on them saying: “You guys had better get out while the getting’s good.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1943, Page 2
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