Evening star., 1945-07-31
Two-DayJdp1 Toll
Put al 207 Ships
And d43OP|anes
Two Aircraft Carriers
Revealed as Damaged
In Carrier Raids
By the Associated Press.

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miral Nimitz announced today
as American deStroyerS knitted
deep into Suruga Gulf to bonn
bard the enemy's largest alumni
mum plant.
The bombardment, 80 miles SOUTH
west of Tokyo, was the seventh
against Japan and carried the COM
bined American British sea-air at
tackS into the 22d consecutive day
Preliminary reports on yesterday s
aerial sweeps over 400 miles of Hon
shu Island and revised totals on last
Saturdays devastating attack which
wrote the end to the Imperial Navy
showed a total of So enemy warships
sunk or damaged.
Most of them were crippled or sent
to the bottom at two naval bases
Kure and Maizuru.
(The Tokyo radio reported $50
American planes, apparently from
Okinawa, attacked Kyushu,
Southernmost island of Japan, to-
day following up raids on the
homeland by 1900 aircraft yes
terday and last night)
Two Carriers Added to Toll.
Revised figures on last Saturdays
American raid on Kure added two
aircraft carriers-the Amagi and
the Katsuragi-and the cruiser Tone
to the list of wrecked first-line war
ships. Both carriers are af1oat, but
their flight decks have been ripped
into uSelesSness. The Tone has been
beached. Two battleships and two
cruisers were previously reported
sent to the bottom of the harbor
Saturday.
Lesser warships, ranging from de-
stroyers downward, were caught by
British airmen at the Maizuru base
yesterday.
Maizuru, on the west coast of
Japan's main island of Honshu, was
the most distant point of the 400
mile arc raked by Allied pilots, who
hit more than 60 airfields, destroyed
go enemy ships and small craft and
1873 planes.
A special communique from Ad-
miral Nimitz revised damage in
f1icted last Saturday along the In
land Sea to 292 enemy aircraft and
lat ships and small craft sunk or
damaged. This is an increase of
eight planes and a downward revi-
sion of Al ships, but the new total did
not include 100 luggers and small
craft credited to British flyers in
previous announcement.
Widespread Damage.
Admiral Nimitz told of widespread
damage inflicted to ground installa-
tons and factories fringing the In
land Sea, but remained silent on any
further activity of the Sd Fleet since
plunging back into the Tokyo area
yesterday.
Tokyo acknowledged the de-
stroyer bombardment and reported
the great Allied fleet was still row.
ing japanese waters.
Shortly after midnight fast de-
stroyer force, including the Schroe-
der and the Harrison, raced into
Suruga Gulf, 80 miles southwest
of Tokyo, and hurled 5-inch shells
at the industrial and transporta-
ton city of Shimizu. The city of
$1,000, which once handled most of
Japan's tea exports, houses Japan's
largest aluminium plant and lies
athwart the major railway line.
Tokyo broadcasts said 80 shells
landed in the target area within
five minutes, then the attacking
force turned and slipped out of the
gulf. The enemy admitted direct
hit was scored on one industrial
plant and "a small number of casu-
alties" inflicted, but otherwise the
damage caused was negligible"
Hamamatsu ShelIed.
Twelve hours previously heavier
bombardment force, led by the
United States battleship Massa-
chusettS and the British battleship
King George v shelled the rail-
way bottleneck city of Hamamatsu,
As miles southwest of Shimuzu.
Admiral Ninitz's regular COM
munique today contained only pre-
liminary reports of results at Ham
amatsu, including damage to big
railway shops, with several buildings
Quilted, an aircraft propeller fac
tory, military barracks and indus
trial buildings afiame, and other
structures hit heavily.
One cruiser reported nine of its
broadsides straddled the 3-mile
Bentenjima Bridge, and a battle
ship reported its shells straddled
the Tenryu estuary bridge, both
vital to Japan's industrial transpor-
tation system.
Between the two bombardments,
great swarms of carrier planes raked
the entire southern end of Honshu
Island. The Tokyo radio said 1900
planes kept up the attack for 13
hours yesterday, starting at dawn.
Of these $50 came from IA aircraft
carriers, including auxiliary car
riers, the enemy said. Co-ordinated
strikes were made by $50 land-based
fighter planes.
Do Aiiled Aircraft Lost.
Admiral Nimitz's revised report on
Saturdays devastating strike said
the blow cost 27 United States car
rier aircraft and 8 British planes.
Extensive damage to factories and
ground installations at Kagamiea-
hara, Akashi, Fukuyama, Harina
and Mkt was disclosed for the first
time. American airmen destroyed IA
locomotives, q hangar, three ware.
houses, one transformer station
three oil tanks, two roundhouses
four oil cars. They damaged eight
locomotives, 13 hangers, one railway
station, two lighthouses, two copper
smelters, two radio stations. many
oil tanks and barracks, the Kawasaki
aircraft factory at Kagamigahars
and eight other factories, including
q powder works set afire.
Revised figures for Saturday and
(see FLEET, Page A-3.)