RAID ON JAPAN
FIGHTERS WAITING
HlGtf ALTITUDE BATTLE (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright > R ™ 9 %£i a*, EW YORK> De C- 4. thZ ■«»™?1^ d ; Press correspondent at the Super-Fortress base on Saipan says that pilots returning from th? fourth raid .on Tokio reported 50 minutes # ©f fighting with Japanese single Wol tw»£ c2 fflnel fighters at extremity high altitudes. They saw their bomb! £#°w® imPPr strings across the targ t gU ry biildhl SS in the
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1944, Page 5
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122RAID ON JAPAN Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1944, Page 5
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