SPLENDID WORK
DONE BY AMERICAN AIRMEN IN CHINA MANY JAPANESE PLANES DESTROYED. HEAVY TOLL TAKEN OF ENEMY SHIPPING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) CHUNGKING, September 19. Heavy aerial’'blows against Japanese ground and airTprces in the Hankow area ifave thwarted any further Japanese attempt to invade the Tungting Lake area this year, said General Chennault., He added that American airmen, in the first half of September, destroyed 40 enemy planes, probably destroyed 32 and damaged five. They also sank 11,000 tons of enemy shipping and damaged 48,000 tons.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1943, Page 4
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