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EFFECTIVE RAID ON
TOKIO
Aircraft Factory
"Badly Hit"
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-AAP,
Photographs of the raid on Tokio
on Sunday show that the [?]
aircraft plant was badly hit, but
the results were not quite up to the
hopes of tbe Commander of tbe
21st Bomber Command on Satan
, (Brig-Gen. HaxneDV states the
, sa^Snwiespondentof AsaartatK
; Press of America.
An eyewitness of tbeta? of ?
Super Fartreas over Takh> aaM
that a Japanese fighter apparent*
bit one of the btanberTs fngmra.
i which feathered. When ar*-**—^
engine started snukmg. theplan?
fen back and at least flue Bgbtem
then attartad The Super FBrt
ress's bomb bay doors stuck open,
apparently civiug the sMpttKtt
, nsbten the lmpcwirinn that O?
ciwisc vss stfll iiiwifaWtny & taQBDw
run. Accordingly they kept aftertt
i and the Super Fsctrest started
: toeing altitude rapidly: The bomber
probably crashed north of ToMo
or dived mto the wa,
Tbe Satpan correspondent ?C
Dnited Press says that a Jjpaaeat
fighter rammwi a Super Portress
,at a Ugh altitude over Tokto on
Sunday ripping out part of one
JSnVWui nuc^butte
, bomber reached Salpan safer/The
' Osbter iiiiaitifiT toto aaotber
GQgfBJ najuCT SOD IMB
to tbe khwiKl In faunes.
Tokio radio said that the Japa
nese Premier <KMbo) bad asked
an Astatic nations to prepare
; ?ptnn enemy counter-attacks ?nd
to exert their ??'??"' in faacteastng
and^ngthentag then- ngbttng
power.
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