PILOTS SHOT DOWN
ALLIES RESCUE MANY
(Special P.A. Correspondent,) Rec. 12.45 p.m. SYDNEY, July 6. Nearly 90 per cent, of the Allied pilots shot down in the Solomons area are now rescued by flying-boats or surface craft. Pilots shot down are often flying again the next day. This is having an incalculable effect on the morale of pilots, who now tear into the Japanese without thought of the possible cost to themselves, writes an Australian war correspondent in the area. Although American airmen are now often fighting more than 150 miles from their main base on Guadalcanal a favourable ratio of losses in combat is being maintained. At the beginning of the Solomons compaign the ratio climbed to four enemy machines destroyed for each American plane lost. Today it is seven or eight to one.
The same correspondent x-eports that after savage fighting the American troops who landed on Vangunu Island, off the southern tip of New Georgia, have confined the remnants of the Japanese garrison to a small and shallow peninsula, The area is a prepared
defensive position, but it is expected that the enemy troops Jhere will be quickly eradicated.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1943, Page 5
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