Evening star., 1945-08-03
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gether from official communiques
and advices of Spokesmen:
More than 100 Army Mustangs
from Two swarmed on Nagoya and
Kobe on Honshu at noon yesterday,
rocketing and strafing airfields, fac
tories, railroad trains and small
shipping-reported by Gen. Carl A.
Spaatz of the United States Army
Strategic Air Forces.
They followed up history's great
est air assaults by 800 of Gen.
Spaatz's Super Forts in the pre-
dawn which heaped heavy damage
on four Honshu cities and Tokyo
Bay oil center at cost OF one B-29
and damage to six others. Only 20
enemy fighters were encountered,
although all four cities had been
forewarned.
More Fires Set At Nagasaki.
Wednesday more than $50 Oki-
nawa based bombers and fighters OF
the Far East Air Forces followed up
a 5O0-plane raid the day before to
churn to new heights the inferno
started on Western Kyushu at the
ship-building center of Nagasaki-
reported today from Manila by Gen.
Macarthur.
The latest and final account OF
Mondays devastating sweep by Brit
ish and American carrier planes
from Tokyo west to Maizuru added
4S more enemy ships smashed, in
cluding one destroyer sunk, two de-
stroyers and destroyer escort DAM
aged-reported today in a COM
munique of Admiral Nimitz.
Other aerial shipping blows newly
disclosed, adding up to 81:
The deStroyers which shelled Shi-
mizu, 80 miles southwest of Tokyo,
Tuesday morning, sank a picket
boat and probably sank a cargo ship.
Yesterdays Iwo-based Mustangs
raiding around Nagoya and Kobe
destroyed IA small craft.
Wednesdays OkinaWa-based Far
East Air Force raiders of Nagasaki
sank or damaged IA vessels, includ-
ing a submarine, large freighter
and 2,000-ton tanker.
Is More Vessels Blasted.
Additionally the FEAT added 13
more vessels sunk or damaged to
the toll exacted Tuesday in the
Kyushu sector.
The equally important devastation
of land targets was impressive.
The Mustang force hitting Nagoya
and Kobe cratered five airfields,
damaged four factories and re-
finery, fired gas tanks, destroyed
seven locomotives, damaged seven
more, also several railroad cars and
disrupted power lines. Eleven raid
ers were damaged by antiaircraft
fire but were unchallenged aloft and
all returned to base.
The reports of FEAT pilots at
tacking Nagasaki contained such de-
tails rs freighters hit while fleeing
a harbor where dock explosions
hurled debris a half mile into the
bay. Without loss, the raiders shot
down six of 20 planes encountered
aloft.
For hours, the port where third
of Japan's commercial shipping is
built was subjected to divebombing
low and high level precision bomb
ing. Oil storage tanks and ware
houses were engulfed by fires which
could be seen for Is miles.
Jap Carriers Attacked.
The japanese even left air raid
shelters in attempts to fight the fires
and save some of the ships.
Meanwhile, belated reports still
filtering ir of Tuesdays Kyushu
attacks by 500 FEAT planes and re-
leased by Gen. Macarthur at Ma
Mia disclosed near misses, often
damaging, scored against three air
craft carriers at the Sasebo naval
base. Pilots said they were sure at
least one fiat top was damaged.
Admiral Nimitz's final report"
on Mondays carrier sweep of Hon
shu made a total bag for that day
of 116 japanese ships and 278 air.
craft destroyed or damaged. 1t also
expanded the successes against land
targets. Around the naval base OF
Maizuru, docks were smashed. The
vital Nagoya arsenal was blasted
Today's communique listed more
hangars, locomotives, oil tanks and
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The Tokyo radio today confirmed
and expanded American accounts OF
the shelling and air bombing OF
Wake Island Wednesday.
Tokyo radio, in a FCC-intercepted
broadcast, said "battleships, de-
stroyers and submarines" took part
IN the shelling.
Admiral Nimitz mentioned only a
battleship.
Tokyo then executed a neat flip
flop on a previous broadcast. 1t had
said a cruiser and three destroyers
on Wednesday morning shelled an
island 10 miles south of Tokyo. To-
day the enemy radio said it was an
error due to faulty wireless trans
mission" and that the attack men,
toned was the one on Wake.
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