The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-30

ton.
All now have been sunk or
damaged.
GUAM, Monday, July 3d.
(UP)-Adm. William F. Hal
sey's mighty Allied Third
Fleet sent more than 1000
carrier planes against the To-
kyo area at dawn today, and
bombarded Hamamatsu, 1876
miles southwest of the rub
bled capital, with more than
1000 tons of shells on the
|21st day of a gigantic air-sea
offensive that already has
cost the enemy GA ships and
1,211 planes destroyed or
damaged. ,
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz dis.
closed that Halsey's mig lest
fleet in history had emerged : ON
a security blackout for the fifth
time in three weeks to launch 81.
other devastating blow. Since open.
ling the current sweep with July
10 carrier assault on Tokyo, Hal,
sey's forces have now made nine
major carrier attacks in which
more than 1880 sorties were
flown and delivered six lombard
ments against a 600-mile stretch
of the Japanese coast from Hok-
kaido to southern Honshu.
During the historic 81 days, B-29
superfortresses, carrier planes and
|Warships have hammered Japan
with more than 1900 tons of
bombs and shells.
Join Offensive
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's war
bulletin meanwhile disclosed that
Okinawa-based planes of Gen.
George c. Kenney's Far Eastern
Air Forces had joined the pre-in-
vasion offensive with a vengeance.
On Friday and Saturday more than
700 bombers and fighters battered
Japan, many of them coordinating
their blows with Navy planes over
the inland sea.
Macarthur announced that Lib
orator bombers had slammed fc :
one-ton bombs into tie elusive
Japanese battleship Haruna, first
hit in this war off the Philippines
in December, 1941, by the late Capt.
Colin Kelly. His planes also hit
a light carrier, light cruiser or de.
stroyer and a destroyer escort, al.
though those ships possibly also
had been hit by Navy hiers in the
Tuesday-Wednesday Saturday at
tacks on the inland sea.
Nimitz disclosed that the Ha-
runa, and the battleships Ise and
Hyuga all were now resting on the
bottom, and with the heavy damage
to the battleship Nagato at the
Yokosuka naval base on July 10,
Japan had no known seaworthy
|
AS the Japanese homeland shud.
dered under the mounting air
blows, Rear Adm. Dewitt c. RAM
sey, chief of staff of the u. S.
Fifth Fleet, said that the invasion
of Japan would be made "by TIE
most overwhelming forces ever
concentrated in military history
His statement warning Japan Of
what to expect was made in re.
spouse to the enemys rejection Of
the Potsdam ultimatum to sure. 4.
der or be destroyed.
Final Figures
Nimitz, in revealing the new at.
tacks, also issued final figures for
Saturdays assaults on the inland
sea and nearby areas. American
and British airmen destroyed or.
damaged 283 planes and 1879 ships,
Including 18 warships, nine Of
which previously had been identi-.
fled as damaged. New warships
added to the list were an escort
carrier, four destroyers, two DEE
stroyer escorts and two subma.
rines.
The new carrier assault against
Tokyo marked return to the area
where Halsey first opened his au-
dacious assaults July 10. Hundreds
of Seafires, Hellcats, Avengers,
Corsairs and Helldivers swept out
from the decks of such American
carriers as the Lexington, indie.
pendence and Essex and the British
carrier Formidable to start day.
long assault against the Japauasa