The Archive · 1937

Nanking Air Raid Told by Raider

Japanese Who Shot Down Two Machines ells Story Shanghai, Sept. 24, qwo phases of Wednesday's alr raids on' the capital of China [Japanese naval aircraft were vividly Geseribed to a correspondent of the focal newspaper "Shanghai Mainichi"

[Ohtsuka and Warrant OMicer Kiyo nor! Kona, Buttonsholed by the "Mainichi" correspondent just as he got out of his "plane after returning from Nan-Warrant Officer Koga told the ered us great Nanking, but mountains, Nanking was spread out below us, "Tt was just as my. plane passing over Pukow that saw a Chinese pursuit plane, a Curtiss: Hawk, dying approximately 500 metres ahead, immediately jumped on the plane's tall, The Chinese ship bank: (ed sharply" and just as it was turn—ing T sent a burst of machine-gun fire into the plane, must have caught the gasoline tank, "For the ship burst into flames and plunged into the Yangtze, The hip" dropped ike a flaming meteor and left'a long plume of black smoke Ju its wake "By the time T was over the eapl-'Pulls could be mountain, T mat this one down' too,

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