The Archive · 1937

Dive, on Target

Seamen Fujiki and Mochizuki, the correspondent was told, were given the City. Government to bomb. Before they had carried out their mission, however, their plane was damaged severely by anti-aircraft fire, Res/'-ing that they Would never be able t return to their own lines, the narrater said, the two men power-dived. into their objective, leaving behind a long plume of black smoke.

Commenting on the brave act, It. Shiraso told the correspondent that the two men must have gone to a ani death with the rising sun flag fluttering from a strut of their plane. He added that they had been in previous folds on Nanking and once on Kiangyin.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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