21st February 2007, 12:37
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Re: China air battle 27 or 28 october 1944
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Originally Posted by Laurent Rizzotti
Gian, I fully agree with you, both sides described the same action.
IMOO, the date in US documents is backed by more sources (official US claims lists, MACR, Mr Molesworth's book) than the Japanese one, for each I have only one source, that was not specialized in this area, contrary to Mr Molesworth.
So my guess is that the 27 October 1944 is the good date.
By the way, I didn't know the book "Wing to Wing", will search it on the Net, it seems very interesting to me
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Laurent
Hammel : Air War Pacific Chronology set US claims at 5 ki-48 + 11
fighters
Cheers
gian paolo |