AMERICAN AIRCRAFT
LIST OF VICTIMS MOUNTING WASHINGTON. „ (Rec. 0.45 a.m.) Feb. 10. The War Department in Washington announced that the Eighth Air Force up to November had destroyed 43 per cent, of Germany’s capacity to produce fighter planes. It added that during 1943 it destroyed 3357 enemy planes, probably destroyed 843, and damaged 1596 The total of American bomber losses was 1037, a rate of under 4 per C 6“ The terrible twins’’—Corsair and Hellcat fighters—destroyed 884 Japanese planes in the Pacific in 1943, reports the Navy Department. Only 170 Corsairs and Hellcats were lost, proving conclusively that they are me answer to the vaunted Japanese Zero, which gave the High Command grave concern in the early phases of the war.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25457, 11 February 1944, Page 3
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