Tribune: "Enemy airbases in China pounded; 25 planes blasted." A Major Yoda accounted for 15 planes on one dive over Kweilin at night, then generously turned back to leave some game for his comrades.

"EIGHT PLANES BLASTED OVER DAVAO" on September 1. "Counter-attacking 32 American Consolidated B-24s coming over Davao at 11:45 AM today, local Japanese forces shot down eight of them including three probables." That's the whole article.

Domei cock-and-bull story from a Japanese base in Southwest Pacific, August 31:

Fierce air raids and duels rage daily over southwest Pacific Bases. 'Let us mutually quit night bombing attacks' was the terse unofficial circular dropped at this base by an enemy airman seeking relief from the havoc-wrecking, nerve-shattering Japanese night assaults on enemy bases in the hotly contested advance front.

What's interesting is that the Americans raid during daytime, and the Japanese raid only at night.

The Japanese lost 141 ships in the month of August — sunk. In the last three months they lost 411. Considering that the total number of Japanese ships sunk since the war began is only 1,602, simple arithmetic tells us that they lost 1,192 in the first 30 months — about 40 per month — and 411 in the last three, or 140 a month! Recent ones may be smaller ships, but the Japanese don't have an unlimited number of even the smaller ones, and must soon risk its larger ones in a HOPELESS fight.