HONSHU RAIDS
THREE TARGETS HIT
Assessment Of Damage In
Earlier Attacks
Rec. 11. WASHINGTON, June 22
The Twentieth Air Force announced a very large-scale Super Fortress attack against the main Japanese island of Honshu in day light to-day. The aircraft dropped thousands of tons of heavy explosives.' • - .•■ • ■ ■
The Associated Press correspondent on Guam says that, flying in clear weather, 450 Super Fortresses dropped high explosives on the Kure naval arsenal, and the Mitsubishi and Kawasaki aircraft plant at Kamamigahara, 20 miles north of Nagoya. Photographs have . revealed that Super Fortresses destroyed or damaged 60 per cent of Shizuoka, 52 per cent of Toyohashi, 40 per cent of Hamamatsu and half of Yokkaichi's commercial centre on June 18 and 20. They also destroyed two, and three-quarter square miles of Osaka and three-quarters of a square mile of Amagasaki.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 147, 23 June 1945, Page 5
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