Evening star., 1950-08-24
BY the Assoeioted Press

TOKYO, Aug. 24.-Tert OF
Korean release No. 306 (Air).
timed at S:15 pm. (6:15 pm.
EDIT today:
B-29s of the United States Far
East Air Forces today attacked
military industrial installations,
secondary marshalling yards and
key railroad bridges north of the
38th parallel. Fighters and light
bombers were active in the imme-
diate battle area.
Roman (Hungnam) received the
heaviest weight of high explosives
when 290 1,000-pound bombs cas-
caded onto isolated installations of
one of the largest chemical COM
plexes in East Asia.
Today's targets included factory
buildings used in chemical extrac-
ton processes and were not in
cluded in the target areas pre-
viously brought under attack by
the superfortS.
Weather was excellent and the
Super Forts went into the target
area in three massive waves to
bomb usually.
| Our attack today is more or
less a mop-up operation to neu-
tralize every vestige of this impor-
tant target" and Air Force
bomber spokesman said.
Neither enemy aircraft nor
anti-aircraft fire opposed the
Super Forts during the IS min
utes required to drop the big
1,000-pounders.
Elsewhere in North Korea,
smaller formations Aof~aB- 29s at
tackled a secondary marshalling
yard at Pyongyang. in which
North Korean rail transportation
has been bottlenecked as a result
of the strategic interdiction pros
gram.
Flash reports only have been re-
ceived from these missions and
from the B-29 formations which
continued the planned program
for the destruction of key railway
and highway bridges essential to
the movement of military supplies
toward the battle lines.
Capt. Thomas P. Ryan, jr.. 1900
Connecticut avenue NV, Wash
ington, D. c., one of the opera
tlons analysts on the FEAT bomb
er command staff who has been
evaluating from photos the dam
age wrought to the Roman COM
plex, today saw for himself the
destruction previous strikes had
done to the chemical installations
THE three principal targets
have been completely devastated, -
Capt. Ryan said, land blackened
ruins with no sign of life are all
that can be seen. The fertilizer
factory is completely burned out
and the explosive factory is a
charred and blackened ruin" he
added.
Capt. Ryan, veteran night fight
er pilot of the italian campaign
of World War II with 60 night
missions to his credit, today flew
his first daytime mission and also
his first in four -engine bombers.
Capt. Ryan. 26. is the son of
DR.. Thomas P. Ryan, sr.,
dentist at the Pentagon. His
wife, Mrs. jeanne Ryan, and
their daughter reside in Riv-
erside, Calf.
Capt. Ryan entered the Serv-
ice as an aviation cadet in 1912
and won his wings as a P-38
pilot a year later at Williams
Field. He was discharged from
the Army Air Corps in 1945.
(He re-entered the Air Force
as an instructor in 1948. After
attending intelligence school,
he was stationed with the 18th
AR Force. Capt. Ryan was as
signed to the strategic Air
Command, in Japan, in JulyD
Capt. Joseph E. Cosgrove, Chey-
enne, Wyo., was in the last plane
over the target.
Flashes of the falling bombs
were barely visible in the heavy
black smoke" he said. "They
were followed by secondary ex-
ploslons. A peculiar dense orange
smoke began pouring from the