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1942
1942 - 0715.PDF
APRIL 2ND, 194a f FLIGHT L %t0m How many shells a minute ? Four-cannon Whirlwinds in formation. selves. None the less, they recovered ground which had first been lost to the Japanese. The American Volun teer Group has joined the Chinese forces in the Shan States, and one day- last week they made determined raids on airfields occupied by the Japanese in Siam. The more important raid was on Chiengmai, the terminus of the railway from Bangkok, where some 50 enemy aircraft were taken by surprise on the ground. Seven to ten of them were completely disabled and several others were probably disabled \£hjl<> others were damaged. The other raid was on Lampun, about 10 miles away from Chiengmai. There is talk of a contingent of regular American Army squadrons being sent from India to the Burma front. The Americans, working with the R.A.A.F., are continuing to harass the Japanese in New Guinea. One day last week four American Fort resses and two Australian Hudsons, escorted by nine Curtiss P40 fighters, attacked the airfield at Lae and destroyed 15 enemy machines, besides damaging others, for a loss of two of the Curtiss fighters. New Japanese Bombers ""THE Japanese have sent a new type -*• of bomber against Corregidor and Bataan in the island of Luzon. It is said that they did little damage. Three of them were shot down by A.A. fire, but no details about them have been published. They may have fallen in the sea. It has recently been disclosed that Chinese air pilots have been under going training at Arizona Field in the United States, and that the first batch has just completed its course. R.A.F. officers who have been in the Far East have formed the opinion that, on the whole, the Chinese make better pilots than the Japanese do. However, we have no reason to despise the Japanese air effort up to date in the present war. The importance of^Wake and Guam Islands, which the Japanese seized as soon as they entered the war, is their utility as air bases. But, probably from the over-confidence with which their rapid successes have inspired them,, or perhaps because they have conceived an unwarranted contempt for the Americans after surprising them at Pearl Harbour, the Japanese neglected to garrison them strongly. It has just been made known that the enterpris ing American Admiral Halsey, who raided the Marshall Islands in January, went on to shell Wake Island in February,, and Marcus Island (a Japanese possession) on March 4th. Few enemy ships or aircraft were found at either place, and the Ameri can cruisers and bombers rained shells and bombs on what they did find, destroying enemy buildings and the Fifty-six passengers in a Sunderland flying boat! Members of the crew of a torpedoed steamer arrive safely ashore.
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