JAP. AIR LOSSES
FIVE TO ONE BRITISH BATTLE FOR RANGOON “FLYING TIGERS" PRAISED (10 a m ) LONDON, March 11. The Japanese lost five times more planes than the Allies in the air over Rangoon in 31 clays, from December 15, inn" and thereafter did not attempt to enter the warning zone until the city was lost and the air bases captured in March 1942. Air Vice-Marshal D. F. Stevenson reveals this in a report published in London todayThe Japanese could put 100 planes into the air at the time compared with 35 British. Their losses were 233 m the air and the Allies 40. Air Vice-Marshal Stevenson praises the American Volunteer Group squadron for "admirable gallantry and fighting characteristics.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22584, 12 March 1948, Page 5
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