Evening star., 1945-08-08

uituCI tlic OIL All rOTC6 command
of 1t. Gen. James Doolittle landed
at their new Okinawa base. ready
to coordinate their blows with
those of the Goth Air Force and the
Army and Navy.
Warned Halsey's Fleet Is Near
A Navy Department radio com
mentator bluntly warned Japan that
Admiral Halsey's feet again is near
and explained only the threat of a
typhoon had interrupted the Sd Fleet
assault That cost the enemy more
than 1000 vessels and 100 planes
destroyed or damaged, in the last
% days OF July. Japan herself had
offered no real defense.
Admiral Nimitz today reported
carrier pilots had swept vengefully
over Wake Island Monday and had
hammered shipping of the China
coast for three successive days
Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Yawata, blasted by Super Forts
today for the first time in a year
had been placed on the goth All
Force death list Sunday. Bombing
was visual in good weather ano
started fires that quickly spread to
conflagration proportions, returning
airmen said A force of 140 Thun-
derbolt fighters from Okinawa es-
corted the Super Forts.
1t was the third blow in as many
days at Japan's war centers. A
580-plane force hit four forewarned
cities and synthetic fuel plant be-
fore dawn Monday, and '125 planes
struck the Toyokawa naval arsenal
southeast of Nagoya Tuesday.
Tokyo Area Attacked.
Thirty more Super Fortresses, &C.
companied by 10 Mustangs anc
Thunderbolts, raided the centraI
district army command area in the
vicinity of Tokyo on Honshu Island
early today the japanese Domei
news agency reported early today
B-29s in the followup raid broke
formation as they. neared their tar
gets and operated over the entire
area" the broadcast, recorded by
the Federal Communications Com
mission, said.
Results of the 750-ton blasting of
the Toyokawa arsenal were gen
orally excellent" the B-29ers said
today. Meeting no air opposition
approximately half the 81 escortine
Mustangs swept destructively over
the Tokyo Bay naval base of Yoko-
hama, exploding a 200-foot freight
err, firing two oil tanks, damaging
trains and rail facilities and 1s
small vessels. One fighter and one
B-29 were lost but all personnel was
rescued.
Yawata's industrial heart, COM
prising the joined cities of Yawata,
Wakamatsu, Tobata, KurosaN and
Kokura, last was attacked August
20, 1914, when China biased B-29s
swept over it both day and night.
Small forces Of Super Forts had
attacked the area two months
earlier than that, but had lost eight
planes. Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay
Goth Air Force commander, planned
ever since to wipe it out.
Marcus and Truk Attacked.
Yawata ranks as one OF the four
most important industrial concen-
trations In Japan. A city Of $50 600,
it contains the empires biggest iron
and steel plant, important chemical
plants, extensive steam power plants
and one of Japan's most important
arsenals.
Mining missions by the B-29s con-
tinued ''in enemy waters" Tuesday
night, Gen. Spaatz also announced,
and small forces of Super Forts
struck Marcus Island and .Truk the
same afternoon with high-explosive
bombs.
Far East Air Forces planes from
Okinawa struck heavily at Kyushu
again Monday, Gen. Macarthur re-
ported today. A force OF more than
500 Liberators, Mitchells and In
vaders strewed firebombs, explosive
rockets and bullets through the fac
tory city OF Kakoshima and the
rail center OF Miyakonojo, starting
many great fires.
Admiral Nimitz, disclosing Hal
y w. "