U.S. PARATROOPS
SHOT DOWN BY ALLIES WASHINGTON, April 19. . The columnist, Mr. Drew Pearson, says.tliat, in addition to the loss of 40,0 United'.., 'States paratroops when, 23 transports were, shot down in Sicily on August, 11, almost 400 more were killed when the second wave of a formation of 21 planes was shot down by Allied naval gunners. FIGURES CORRECTED CIO a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 26. Replying to the report that the United States Army lost 21 planes and nearly 400 men on August 14, the War Department said that the American air forces lost 10 transit planes and 44 officers and men in a paratroop operation during the Catania battle in Sicily on the night of July 13. Th'e department estimated that 50 -per cent of the, loss was caused hy friendly, arithaiiwaft Ore-
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21385, 21 April 1944, Page 4
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