LOSSES OF PLANES
ENEMY IN TROUBLE
(Rec. 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 27. Writing in the "New York Herald Tribune," Major Eliot George Fielding estimates that the Japanese, since August, have lost 1416 planes in the Solomons, averaging 314 a month, and produced at the same time 250 to 400 combat * planes monthly. This means that they were losing almost their entire production.
This total does not include losses in New Guinea, China, or the Aleutians or operational losses in training, ferrying, or convoying. The Japs are making the greatest efforts to increase their output, but are meeting with insuperable obstacles, particularly a shortage of machine tools, fuel, and lubricants. Therefore, it is impossible to design and produce new models embodying the recent fighting experience.
On the other hand, American designs have steadily improved. Furthermore, there is ample evidence that the # Japanese pilot training programme is unable to keep up with losses.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1942, Page 5
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