The daily monitor leader., 1945-07-10
Air War
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loaded on enemy targets by Ar
my Airforces in World War IL
Gen. Henry II. (Hap) Arnold
chief of Army Air Forces, has
promised that Japan alone will
feel 100000 tons of bombs in
the year which started July /.
A single Superfort was lost on
today's mission, but all crew
men were saved. Flax and aer-
ial interception were termed Gin
consequential" Bombing was
visual over all targets except
Sakai, near Osaka, which pro-
duces picric acid for munitions,
Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey's
58th Wing filters. ranging to far
north Sendai, said the japanese
were caught unprepared with
the city's lights on until the Su-
perforts neared their targets.
Fliers from Saipan's 73rd
Wing said the chemical and mu-
nitions city of Sakai was "a
mass of flames"
CHAOTIC SKY
There were searchlights,
flax and BIOS all over the sky
and string of fires all up and
down the coast wherever you
looked" as Superforts left the
Utsube refinery, reported 1t
William c. Boone, 304 West
Washington avenue, Kinston, N.
Carolina.
Guam based 3l4th wins &
crewmen said fires were spread
ing all over Gifu, railroad and
papermill center; and Wakaya-
ma was reported "plastered''
with fire bombs.
Spreading destruction to out
lying islands of the Empire, the
greatest Mitchell medium bomb
er strike yet staged from Oki-
nawa struck Tokuno airfield in
the Amami Islands Monday with
results described as good" Six
ty Mitchells carrying more than
1000 bombs of undisclosed ton
mage were escorted by 48 Ma
rine Corsairs.
Meanwhile the Tokyo radio,
without admitting damage, des-
cribed wave after wave of car
rier planes striking at airfield
after airfield around the Rising
Sun capital. The Domei broad
cast claimed japanese Fighter
planes and Ackack were bat
tling the continuing American
sweeps.
GREAT DAMAGE
American broadcasters with
the fleet said great damage was
being inflicted by the carrier
planes.
Liberator heavy bombers
from Okinawa made their first
strike in force against the en-
emy homeland July S, raining
200 tons of bombs-plus incen-
diaries-on Omura airfield,
midway between Sasebo and
Nagasaki, on Kyushu, Associat-
ed Press correspondent Robert
Geiger reported. Thunderbolt
Fighters eScorting the Liberator
bombers shot down 10 japanese
training planes.
Mitchell mediums in the same
tt k carried augmentation
cluster bombs, followed by incen-
diaries from the liberators. The
American force numbered about
200 planes.
Omura field a huge dispersal
area for the enemy's land-based
planes, 1000 by 1000 feet.
Enough incendiaries were drop
ped to spot one on each seven
square feet of the area. Crews
reported raging fires"
The battered island of For
mosa, which Tokyo has admitted
has been virtually Knocked out
a. the empires prime China base,
absorbed still more punishment
Saturday from more than 100
heavy and medium Fifth Air
Force bombers.
The bombers blew up the last
of Formosas feel alcohol pro-
duction, Associated Press COR
respondent Spencer Davis re-
ported from Manila headquart.
ers of the army forces of the
Pacific. Formosa once produced
a sixth of all the alcohol used
by the empire in the production
If aviation gasoline, he said.
Three airfields were cratered
on Formosa and oil storage tanks