NOT DETERIORATING
Quality Of Japan’s Pilots
(Received March 24, 7.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, .March 24. Recent statements that the Japanese are running short of pilots and that their calibre is deteriorating are contradicted by returning aces of the navy s leading fighter group, the "Skull and Crossbones Corsair squadron, says the New lork Times” Pearl Harbour correspondent. The members of this squadron established a Pacific record, shooting down lu4 Japanese planes in 79 combat days. The Squadron commander, Blackburn, said that, if anything, the Japanese pilo s had improved since the pilots of the ear.y days at Guadalcanal. The “Skull and Crossbones . squadron completed its combat assignment without losing a single bomber from the groups it escorted.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 153, 25 March 1944, Page 7
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