"GETTING TOUGHER"
SOLOMONS FIGHTING
(Rec. 11 a.m.) NEW YORK. Oct. 29 "The Solomons fighting is getting tougher all the time," said four navy fighter pilots returning to the United States for more planes, reports the Honolulu correspondent of the "New York Times."
"We can hold on if they will keep sending in reinforcements. The marines are plenty tough, We have the utmost confidence in them. They'll hold on. V,"The army had: no,planes, capable of the high altitude required," said the pilots. "We need more, faster, and better fighters," they declared.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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