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WAR PLANTS
BATTERED
Super Fortresses
Hit Japan
Australian Associated Press
NEW YORK, June 10.
For tbe second day running,
Super Fortresses today made
pinpoint attacks on enemy war
plants on Honshu, main island
of Japan proper, including
some in the Tokio area.
The mission was carried out by
more than 200 Super Portresses,
and the Guam correspondent of
Associated Press of America says
that they struck at five Japanese
industrial plants and repair bases,
comprising the Tr? **r"i aircraft
plant at Chiba, 30 miles south-east
of Tokio; the Tomioka aircraft
plant, five miles south of Toko-1
hama; an army and air depot 24
miles west of Tokio; the TTitarfii
engineering works at Sukagawa,
115 miles north-east of Tokio; and
the Kasimagaura ia??ni?n? base, 35
miles north-east of Tbkio.
Yesterday about 150 Super Ftort
resses attacked aircraft factories at
Nagoya, Naruo and Akashi with
high explosive bombs. |
TbV1 Guam correspondent of
United Press states that the Super
Fortresses were not escorted. It
was* the first triple assault against
the Japanese mainland.
Visual Bombing
AcoonHQk io~*UiB Guam" cbfte
spondcntof-itte *T?ew York Times.'*
the unescorted raiders bombed
visually from medium height in
The first group attacked the
Kwanishi plant at Naruo, the prin
cipal producer of the navy fighter
George. Tbe second attacked, the
Kwasaki aircraft plant at Kobe,
which had been largely repaired
since it was hit on January 19. The
third attacked the Alchi aircraft
plant at Nagoya, which produces
<figinfs and parts.
All the Super Fortresses re
turned. Only a few enemy fighters
were encountered. Flakwasheavy
but inaccurate.
On Friday carrier aircraft struck
the Kanoye air base on Kuyushu,
most southerly island of Japan, de
stroying a minimum of 28 planes
on tbe ground and two in tfij air.
Carrier planes also attacked the
Sakishima Islands.
Undsay Parrott. correspondent'
of the "New York Times" at head
quarters of the Par East Air Force,
says that the commander (Gen.
Kenney), in an interview, aald that
Japan, as a ream of the blooiride,
ouM soon begin to face an acute
food shortage. Attention had been
"Mcartrated on the bombing of
mdustaal plants, but the food
situation was also important He
F>??ted out that Japan's fishers
bad bed increasingly bombed.
Toldo radio has announced that
recent Super Fortress raids on
Yokohama destroyed 132,000 dwell
ings and left 680,000 homeless
F"*? 8,? "S^ or WWUMo home
less Tokio. Yokohama and Nagoya
A new Allied landing is reported | by Tokio rodiqjon Lobuan Island, off the north-west coast of Borneo, just north of Brunei. Help
A new Allied landing is reported |
by Tokio rodiqjon Lobuan Island,
off the north-west coast of
Borneo, just north of Brunei.
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