"MOSTLY KILLED"
JAPANESE ACE PILOTS
(Special P.A. Correspondent.) (Rec. 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 12. Most of Japan's ace pilots m the South-west Pacific area have been killed, according to the-commander of the Allied air forces in this area, Lieut.-General Kenney. The Japanese did not now have pilots to make mass night raids. "Our own boys are .getting really good in the air at night now," he added, commenting on the satisfactory results of Thursday's heavy raid on the enemy air concentrations at Rabaul. • "I' would say they are as good as night flyers as they were in the daytime months ago. But the Japanese learn much more slowly than our men, \vho can fly the weather and all other hazards of this dangerous zone without intensive preliminary training. To drop an equal' weight of bombs with us the Japanese would have to send over more than twice the number of planes we are using.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 138, 12 June 1943, Page 6
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