The article below was published in the daily newspaper Spokesmen Review, Spokane, Washington, USA, January 9, 1945.
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Kunming, China, Jan 6. (Delayed) - (UP) - The Japanese are using some kind of flying bomb for the air defense of China.
Announcing this today, Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault said it had not been determined whether the bombs were launched from planes or the ground. So far they have had not great success. Flyers told of seeing "objects following or paralleling" the course of American planes. In each case the pilots were able to evade the objects.
The Japanese Air Force "is incapable of defense and therefore is bound to try to work out something," commented Chennault, Commander of the United States 14th air force.
