Between "40 to 50" Chinese combat machines engaged the Japanese raiders aerial fights. Thirty-six Chinese planes were shot down, the communique asserted.
According to a Domei_dispatch from an unnamed Japanese alr Ease all the Chinese machines, that engaged the attackers in combat were Soviet manufacture and were manned by Russian pilots.
"With the exception of one machine, at the Japanese bombers that partly Cipated in this operation, the com= munique said, returned to their base, although many showed traces of a The Japanese machine that went into a "suicide dive," Domei said, carried a crew of two captains and five non-commissioned officers.
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