JAP PLANE LOSSES
SOLOMONS CAMPAIGN EXPENSIVE. Luitcu i* ress Assn.— By Elective Telegraoh— Copyright. NEW YORK., Dec. 3*7. Writing in the Herald-Tribune, Major Fielding Eliot estimates that the Japanese since August have Lost 1416 planes in the Solomons, averaging 314 monthly. They have produced in the same time 250 to 500 combat planes monthly. This means they are losing almost their entire production. The total does not include losses in New Guinea, China and the Aleutians, also operational losses in tiaining, ferrying and convoying. The Japanese are making. the gieatest efforts to increase their output but are meeting with insuperable obstacles, particularly a shortage of machine-tools, fuel and lubricants, making it impossible to de sign and produce new models embodying recent fighting experience. On the contrary, American designs have steadily improved. Furthermore, there is ample evidence that the Japanese in their pilot training programme are .unable to keep up with the losses.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15236, 29 December 1942, Page 3
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