FIVE JAP PLANES
Destroyed in Twenty Minutes BRILLIANT ACTION ON BURMA FRONT. [Aust, & N.Z. Cable Assn.l (Rec. 12.55.) LONDON, April 5. Six R.A.F. Hurricane pilots, including two ex-scfioolmasters. taught sixteen Japanese fighters a lesson in the recent fighting on the Arakan front, reports the Air, Ministry News Service. In just over'twenty minutes they destroyed five enemy planes and probably damaged several others. Our losses were nil One of the exschoolmasters, Warrant Officer W. H. F. Been, of Auckland, said that he got in a long burst against one plane from dead astern, and it over-turned and went straight down. KISKA AGAIN BOMBED. RUGBY, April 4, Bombing of Japanese-occupied Kiska, in the Aleutians, eight times in one day. is reported by a United States Navv communique, dealing with operations on April 2. Hits on the target area were, observed. AU the United States planes returned.
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Grey River Argus, 6 April 1943, Page 5
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144FIVE JAP PLANES Grey River Argus, 6 April 1943, Page 5
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