Evening star., 1945-10-12
Super Forts Fly
Food to0kinawa
1yphoon Victims
3 Dead, l0Missine and
100 Injured in Storm,
Meuger Reports Soy
BY the Associated Press.

sS the Associated Press
American Super Fortresses to-
day flew food supplies to troops
on Okinawa whose installations
were demolished or heavily dam
aged by a typhoon which struck
the island Tuesday.
Three American navy perSonne,
were killed, 10 sailors were missing
more than 100 soldiers injured and
127 vessels were sunk, damaged or
beached by the 132-mile typhoon.
The reports were official, but con-
ceded to be fragmentary because OF
limited communications.
HOnshu Island Hard Hit.
The typhoon, which struck Oki-
naWa after having twisted $50 miles
TO the southwest for "a hours
swept northward and killed at least
90 japanese, flooded 5000 houses,
washed away 81 bridges and left
many thousands homeless in Central
and Southern Honshu.
Fifty Super Fortresses from the
MarianaS delivered 284 tons of food
to the 10000 troops on Okinawa
today. approximately twice that
amount will be transported to them
during the next three days by
bombers from Guam. Next week
deliveries will be made from Saipan.
In addition to food, the troops
need shelter facilities to replace
tentsA QponSet huts and other in
stallationS.
Parked airplanes were rolled about
by the typhoon, the islands food
stocks were nearly all destroyed and
hospital patients had a nightmarish
time throughout the hours of dark
ness.
CASUALTIES and Damage.
The official reports from Army
headquarters in Manila and feet
headquarters at Pearl Harbor, listed
these casualties and damage on
Okinaws:
Three Navy men killed and 10
missing.
One hundred soldiers injured.
Four Japanese prisoners of war
killed.
Five small naval vessels sunk,
Fifty-two ships presumably smalD
and 10 other naval auxiliaries of all
types beached on Okinawa's reefs.
Shore installations, including dock
facilities, extensively damaged.
First, incomplete reports from
Tokyo listed this havoc on Honshu
Sixty-nine killed; 5000 homes flood
ed, 81 bridges washed out, many
thousands homeless.
More than 1000 acres of land in
Japan washed out and many thou
sands flooded by heavy rains which
accompanied the typhoon, increas-
ing the nations already critical
food problem.
Rice Crop Hard Hit.
Damage was estimated up to 20
per cent in the rice crop of one
large Honshu Island prefecture
Rice paddles were damaged on Hok-
kaido. The nations rice harvest
this year had been estimated before
the storm at approximately S,00O,-
600 bushels, the lowest figure since
early in the century.
Heavily damaged communications
on both Okinawa and Honshu ham,
pered attempts to get complete re-
ports on casualties and damage
On Okinawa, damage was so great
that the east coast was out of touch
with the western side of the narrow
10-mile- wide island.
There were fears that the Nav,
casualties on Okinawa might be
increased by later reports. Ir
Washington yesterday, the Navy re-
ported that a far less severe typhoor
on September 1918 sank four motor
minesweepers with casualties of 8e
officers and men dead or missing
A submarine chaser also was sunk
then, but not one aboard was killed
The missing included 1t. Willare
E. Blaser of Dayton, Ohio, skipper
Of the YMS-472; 1t. Walter Scot
Townsend, Norfolk, Va, skipper ot
the YMS-98; 1t. G.g.) John William
Colglazier, yorktown, Va, com.
mander of the YMS-341. The skip.
per of the YMS-42l, the fourth
rninesWeeper sunk, was 1t. Charlie.
Carver, New York City, who sur.
vived. The subchaser lost was tht
SC-636 in command of 1t. G.g.)
Warren Huff Jackson of Harlingen
Tex
"a Navy craft sunk by this weeks
storm were two tugs, a patrol yacht
a gasoline barge and a minesweeper
all caught in Buckner Bay.
The American Fleet, which six
months ago rushed an invasion
force of 100000 to Okinawa. today
was rushing to the aid of an equal
number of almost destitute survi.
vors of the typhoon.
Hospital ships in the area were
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