ENEMY SHIPPING STRAFED
COASTAL VESSELS SUNK ADMIRAL NIMITZ’S COMMUNIQUE (Rec. 12.5.) WASHINGTON, July 19. “Navy Privateers yesterday stfhk seven small coastal cargo ships near the western top of Honshu, and damaged a small coastal freighter, and a submarine chaser in the Bnngo channel,” says today’s communique from Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’s headquarters. “The Privateers also set on fire a radar station on the east coast of Kyushu. Liberators destroyed two medium cargo ships and a small coastal cargo ship south of Honshu. “Marine aircraft attacked Tokuno Island in the Amamis, and shot down two torpedo bombers in the sea near the Riukius. “They destroyed another plane near Tokuno Island, bringing to 500 the total number of enemy aircraft destroyed by the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing since April 7, when it began operations in the Okinawa area."
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24624, 21 July 1945, Page 7
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