ACCURATE FIRE
INDONESIAN GUNNERS
BRITISH PLANES SUFFER
(10.30 a.m.) BATAVTA. Dec. 17. Announcing that an E.A.F. Thunderbolt had been shot down in the Sourabaya area, a senior air officer said the Indonesian anti-aircraft fire was almost as accurate as some in Germany. Fourteen planes had been lost since the beginning of the Java operations and about half of them were believed to have been shot down.
The spokesman added the Japanese had intensely trained locally-recruited gunners during the war.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21899, 18 December 1945, Page 3
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