AERODROMES BOMBED

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24624, 21 July 1945, Page 7

AERODROMES BOMBED

Air Offensive On Japanese DAMAGE TO SHIPS AND TRANSPORT dec. 8,30) WASHINGTON. July 19. “Bombers of the 7th Air Force penetrated thick cloud cover and dropped more than 200 tons of bombs on Kiangwan aerodrome, near Shanghai,” says a communique issued to-day at General MacArthnr’s headquarters. “Escorting lighters started fires at Tinghai aerodrome and attacked shipping near Taishan Island. “Night air patrols destroyed or damaged 27 cargo craft on the Asiatic coast and sank a freighter-transport off Hainan Island. They set fire to enemy storage facilities and damaged motor transport near Canton and the Indio-China coast. “Medium units bombed Ituba Island, in the South China Sea. Other aircraft started fires on Limboeng aerodrome in the Celebes, and wrecked 15 coastal craft alpng the southern coast and in the Lesser Sundas. "R.A.A.F. and Dutch medium bombers and fighters, attacking isolated enemy garrisons, destroyed several barges in north-western New Guinea. R.N.Z.A.F. and Marine units caused fires in an area on Kawieng and at Rabaul, and bombed points of resistance in support of the ground operations. “Air and light naval units caused numerous fires and much destruction in attacks against enemy coastal targets in Borneo. Search planes sank a freighter, set a ship on fire at Samarinda, and set fire to another at Band Jermasin. “Fighters set fire to a fuel barge and heavily damaged a riverboat pear Sibu. Fighter-bombers of the sth and 7th Air Forces made low-level bombing and strafing attacks on railway communications, Slipping, and waterfront areas in southern Kyushu and waters to the south. Railroad tunnels north-west and south-west of Kagoshima, the principal port, and an important rail centre in south-east Kyushu, were sealed by direct bomb hits. A third tunnel was damaged. “Many watercraft near Miyaoaki, on the east coast, were left unserviceable and a dock was set on fire. A 10,000-ton cargo ship was destroyed of? Amami Island. The scheduled attacks on Formosa were cancelled because of adverse weather.”