Evening star., 1945-07-30
Japan HitAgain
ByWarshipsand
Carrier Planes
Homumotsu Targets
Burning FiereeIy'
After SheIIinq
By the Associated Press.

ed again TO-DAY as Jne Unltec
States Navy sent its bold Sc
Fleet in to shell one big indus
trial city and 1900 American
and British carrier planes
ripped up 60 airf1eldS and Other
military installations from Kyu-
shu to Tokyo itself.
American war power. paradint
from one momentous week into an
pther, piled up triumph after tri
umph in a message of steel and flrt
that the Allied surrender ultimatun
meant what it said-quit or be de-
Itroyed.
With action continuing, event!
recorded we're:
Staff officers wrote off the Jap.
anese Navy as dead following th'
knockout punch at the Kure nava
base Saturday.
Targets Burning Fiercely.
Task Force 38 stood close inshore
Ind poured 1000 tons of shells into
The important industrial and raj
sity of Hamamatsu, 100 miles south
pf Tokyo and miles inland, leaving
targets burning flercely' after 6
pne-hour assault today.
Carrier aircraft, loaded with
rockets and heavy caliber machine.
gun shells, rampaged virtually un.
noleSted over the home island OF
Honshu from Kobe north to Tokyo
bunting japanese alrplanes and air.
ields, railroad locomotives and any,
hing else of military value.
One returning fighter group
toamed at will over a deserted
Tokyo before hammering a huge
var plant in the southwest section
pf the capital 1t didn't draw g
Jingle round of antiaircraft fire.
The mighty Super Fortress com.
nand announced excellent results
N the bombing yesterday of six OF
II forewarned japanese industria
target towns, mission accomplished
without the loss of a single plane
md promised to continue its pre-.
announced campaign of devasta.
uon.
Japs Acknowledge Attacks.
The japanese Domei news agency
sstimated that 1850 planes attacked
Japan from dawn to mid-afternoon
The main weight of the assault was
Iirected at targets around Tokyo
,y the carrier planes. Domei said
First estimates said 700 planes were
participating. The number was
boosted to 1000, and then to l 1850
Quoting communique issued
ointly by the Kanto army and
Yokohama naval station head
quarters, Domei said targets were
mainly airfields and other military
Installations and factories
Domei claimed japanese "air
lnits" went into action, intercept
ng" and gaining war results s"-a
llaim unsubstantiated by American
Ind British a!rmen.
Domei later reported that Iwo-
,ased Mustang Psi fighter planes
lttacked the south-central Honshu
lrea, bombing and straf1ng air bases,
Varships and military establish
nents in the vicinity of Ise Bay and
Osaka
Results Tabulated.
Admiral Nimitz's headquarters
meanwhile, was busy tabulating re-
ults.
The rampaging feet since July 1C
has cost Japan l,076 planes and 9l5
hips and small craft destroyed or
damaged, according to a box score
ssued at headquarters.
This is it; this is the end of the
Japanese Navy"
That was the quiet conclusion OF
,ne Sd Fleet officer aboard Vice Ad-
niral John S. McCain's carrier flag
hip, after studying photographs of
he devastation wrought Saturday
It Kure. Associated Press Cores
pondent Richard OMalley reported
The Nimitz staff issued this box
GORE:
Destroyed or damaged: LOTS
tnemy aircraft and 915 ships or
mall craft.
Combatant ships sunk, IT; mer-
lhantmen. "a; luggers and small
.raft, 189.
Combatant ships damaged, 81;
merchantmen. 1873; luggers and
mall craft, 451.
Three Battleships Sunk.
Listed as sunk were the battle
lhips Kyuga, Ise and Haruna ano
the heavy cruiser Aoba. Admiral
Nimitz previously announced six
aircraft carriers of all sizes, a total
pf five cruisers, many destroyers and
Iome lesser warcraft damaged.
The aircraft toll included: De-
gtroyed in the air, 55; destroyed
lground, 1898; damaged aground
523.
Locomotives destroyed, 1876; loco
motives damaged. IS.
Admiral Halsey's planes, aided by
and-based Army, Navy and Marine
lirmen, destroyed or damaged 55T
Japanese craft and 589 planes ir
ihe most recent series of carrier
strikes beginning at Kure last Tues
bay. Included we're As warships-
10 surface ships and five SUBJ
marines.
Japan in most cases didnt-or
louldn't-f1ght back. Not single
Allied warship has been reported
damaged since the fleet went into
lction July TO-
Gen. MacArthur's airmen, who
Ioined the Kure attack Saturday
Ind blasted the battered Haruna
With four one-ton bombs, also hit
IN aircraft carrier in the same
itrike, and probably sank an escort
iarrier and light cruiser at the
Sasebo naval base on Kyushu.
Heavy Toll Exacted.
Admiral Nimitiz's reports showed
1873 japanese planes and 1876 ships
,r small craft destroyed or damaged
Sarturday alone, by forces under
One additional man from,
the District area has been re-
ported killed in this Uar. See