FIVE TO ONE AIR LOSSES BY JAPANESE OVER RANGOON
(Rec. 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 11
The Japanese lost five times more planes than the Allies in the air over Rangoon in 31 days from December 15, 1941, and thereafter did not attempt to enter the warning zone until the city was lost and air bases captured in March, 1942. Air Vice-Marshal D. F. Stevenson reveals this in a report published in London, today. The Japanese could have put 100 planes into the air at a time, compared with 35 British. Their losses were 233 in the air and the Alfies 46. Air Vice-Marshall Stevenson praises the American Volunteei Group Squadron for their “admirable gallantry and lighting characteristics.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 March 1948, Page 5
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