AMERICA’S AIR WAR
ZERO PLANE NOW BEATEN Recd. 10 p.m. New York. Feb. 9. The War Department in Washington has announced that the Bth Air Force, up to November, lias destroyed 43 per cent, of Germany’s capacity to produce fighter planes. It added that during 1913, it destroyed 3357 enemy planes, and probably destroyed 843 and damaged 1596. The total American bomber losses were 1037, a rate of under four p?r cent. “The Terrible Twins,” the Corsair and Hellcat fighters destroyed £Bl Japanese planes in the Pacific in >943, reports the Navy Department. Only 170 Corsairs and Hellcats were lost, provi'ig conclusive!’.’ they were the answer to th? vannto- 1 Jap-nese Zero, which gave the High Common 1 grave concern in the c?.r;y phases of the war.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 35, 11 February 1944, Page 5
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