JAPANESE AIR ACE
CLAIMS TOTAL OF 63 PLANES (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) TOKIO, Dec. 16. Japan’s leading surviving ace, Naval Sub-Lieutenant Saburo Sakai, in an interview, claimed 63 American, Australian and Dutch planes, mostly shot down in the South-West Pacific early in the war.
Sakai said there were few surviving Japanese aces, because, unlike American aces who were brought home as instructors, the Japanese were left to die in combat.
Sakai, who is partly paralysed as the result of wounds received over Guadalcanal, is. at present an office clerk. He terminated the interview by bowing stiffly and saying: “I apologise to the relatives of the men I killed.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 57, 17 December 1945, Page 3
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