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Show reached the target a 'almost tajj NEW SUICIDE PLANES MADE From Kunming, China, comes reports of a new type of suicide plane, now being constructed by th Japanese Dn a large scale, to replace regular planes that Japanese Japa-nese suicide pilots have been loading load-ing with explosives and crashing into American warships. In the new plane, tne pilot sits in the centr, locked into his cockpit cock-pit from the outside, without a parachute. The wheels automatically automati-cally drop when the plane leaves the grGund and the pilot, unable to bail out or land without an explosion, ex-plosion, is doomed. While there has been little official offi-cial information as to the nature f Japanese offensive attempts against our ships in the Far Pacific, Pacif-ic, it is quite probable that the enemy will attempt to inflict damage dam-age by the use of suicide pilots. Th only protection for a ship is to prevent suicide planes from getting into p0sition for the final dive. This means the enemy plane must be shot down before it has |