FIERCE AIR BATTLE
JAPANESE CLAIM
51 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED ]
(Received July 5, 12.50 p.m.) SHANGHAI, July 4. ' N
Fifty Japanese aeroplanes which \ were dropping hundreds of bombs ia -~ an effort to destroy* th|e Nanchlang. o air base were engaged in a fierce air battle in which they claim to have put out of action 51 Chinese machines^ representing almost the entire front* line strength, in furious dogfights, and;. also to have demolished^ old and new, i aerodromes, losing only one aero*! plane. " ...
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1938, Page 11
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82FIERCE AIR BATTLE Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1938, Page 11
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