EASTERN AIR WAR
U.S. Aircraft Strafe Targets Front Bonins To Japan SHIPS, PLANES DESTROYED Rec. 10.30. NEW YORK, July 9. Tokyo radio says that 150 bombers and fighters attacked Marcus Island. Fifty Mustangs reconnoitred Chichi Island, in the Bonins, on Saturday and yesterday. Admiral Nimitz's communique says: "Okinawa-based Corsairs set fire to four small coasters, capsized another, strafed a small submarine and exploded two fighter planes on the ground during sweeps on the Amami Group, north-east of Okinawa. Corsairs and Avengers destroyed two planes on the Hirara airfield, in the Sakishimas, southwest of Okinawa, on Saturday. Corsairs set fire to a large building and damaged a lighthouse on the Sakishimas to-day.
"Navy search planes shot down a fighter to the west of Kyushu on Saturday. Mariners damaged two luggers and a trawler on the North China coast and set fire to another lugger in the Yellow Sea to the west of Korea. Thunderbolts attacked the Goto Group, off Kyushu Navy planes sank a small cargo ship and a lugger to the south of Honshu."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 161, 10 July 1945, Page 5
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