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Enemy Deaths in Pacific WASHINGTON, May 20. Fourteen Japanese soldiers are being killed for every American killed in the Pacific operations, states the Office of War Information. Even if the United States wounded and missing from Guadalcanal in October, 1942, are included the Japanese losses are three times those of the United States. This calculation of the Japanese death-roll leaves out of account many thousands drowned or killed in ships or barges sunk or damaged by naval and air action, or killed by bombing behind the Japanese lines or those in isolated garrisons. Earlier the United States Navy Department issued statistics that the ratio of Japanese to United States navy losses in the Pacific war was now 9.4 to 1 against the Japanese. great that it is doubtful whether the enemy's aircraft production and pilot training can keep pace with such a mortality rate. An official navy spokesman expressed mystification at the reluctance of the Japanese pilots to fight against the attackers of their homeland. "It looks as if they fly away when they see us coming," he said. "They are apparently trying to save their air force, but I don't know for what they are saving It."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1945, Page 5
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