FLYING FORTRESSES
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(Rec. 12.45.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. Flying Fortresses in the European and Pacific theatres of war shot down 130 enemy planes, probably destroyed 92 more, and damaged 82 more between August 15 and October 15, the Secretary of War, Mr. H. L. Stimson, announced. In the same period Only six Flying Fortresses were lost. In the Pacific area the Fortresses shot down 45 planes, with 13 other probables, and five damaged.
accused of employing "gangster methods," including airmen who intentionally attack civilian objectives and civilians. • ' ". A New York message states that Tokio official radio continues to broadcast threats of severe punishment against United States airmen alleged to have been taken prisoner after the raid on Japanese territory. The spokesman, Mr. Hori, said that the pilots seized had already been sentenced by a Japanese military court, but the sentence might not be carried out immediately. He denied that the action was a reprisal, and claimed that the threatened punishments were only for the future, in order to protect the Japanese civilian population against enemy terrorism. The Associated Press of America says these statements suggest that the Japanese fear more raids and are an effort to discourage them. One Tokio broadcast said that future raiders would be tried for their lives.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 99, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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