SUICIDE PLANE ATTACKS
VULNERABILITY OF WARSHIPS (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) CHICAGO. July 19. Commodore Kiefer, captain of the United States aircraft-carrier Ticonderoga, which was severely damaged by two Japanese suicide Dianes near Formosa on January 21. said at a press conference that Japanese suicide planes obtained five times as many hits against warships as other bombers. because warships could be manoeuvred away from ordinary bombs, but not from a steered bomb. He added that old obsolete planes were often used to carry explosives. “If our offensive had been six months later, our task would have been ten times harder, because the Japanese began building suicide ‘baka’ bombs at the time the offensive began,” he said. “Just as they perfected the ‘baka,’ we shot down most of the planes capable of carrying it.”
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24624, 21 July 1945, Page 7
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