FLAT JAP DENIAL
SHOOTING OF U.S. AIRMEN
Rec. 9.30 a.m. NEW YORK, July 28. A Japanese Information Board, broadcast from Tokyo, flatly denied that American Super Fortress crews, which participated in the Kyushu raid, were executed after their capture The spokesman said that the American inquiry, through the Swiss Legation at Tokyo, arose from a twisted interpretation of a Singapore broadcast the purport of which was: "The raiding bombers shot down out of the skies of Japan had thus come with a one-way ticket to hell."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 178, 29 July 1944, Page 5
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