CS:-
20th June '43 the JAAF decided to try their luck. 30 bombers and 22 Ki-43 Oscars were met by 46 Spitfires. 9 bombers were destroyed, 8 more damaged, 5 fighters were shot down, 2 damaged without the Wing losing a single Spitfire.
So the 40+ Spitfires in the jolihokistix Japanese propaganda piece was correct, but everything else a blatant lie? 5 Oscars destroyed but not one Spitfire. 9 of the 30 bombers ( the whole point of the raid) destroyed and a further 8 damaged. Scarcely something to celebrate one would have thought, but that of course is when propaganda comes into its own.
"If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth". Joseph Goebbels may or may not have believed his own lies, but did the inhabitants of Tokyo believe this one?