WOMEN PILOTS
USE BY JAPANESE SHOW-DOWN YET TO COME AMERICA’S BEST NEEDED (2.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 1. Major-General Willis Hale, the new commander of the United States Army Air Force in the mid-Pacific, in a speech at Pearl Harbour, revealed that the Japanese are employing women pilots in warplanes. Major-General Hale asserted that a new chapter in aerial warfare had been opened by the Pacific conflict and the show-down had not yet come. It will be a long, hard job against an enemy that will not push over. “The operations off Midway Island were an excellent example of the complete co-ordination necessary between all forces in the Pacific. The air forces will be the controlling factor in the Pacific. The Japanese have real planes manned by real fighters who are highly trained and skilled. They have introduced new weapans in the Pacific war, for example, grenades from. planes and also women pilots in warplanes. It is going to take the best we have to carry on to victory.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20826, 3 July 1942, Page 5
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