RECORD AIR ACTIVITY

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26510, 27 August 1951, Page 7

RECORD AIR ACTIVITY

U.N. Planes Over North Korea

(Bsc, 11-30 p.m.) TOKYO, August 26.

Dm Far East Air Force to-day eltoed a Korean war record for the fraction of Communist vehicles. Striking yesterday at heavy Comniatot rapply traffic, planes of the Far gut Air Force accounted for 260 Mdsr-vehicles destroyed and about $M tenured behind the battle lines. IfifhVflying bombers on Friday etoed to have destroyed or damaged nearly 400 supply vehicles on North Korean roads. light and heavy bombers, in improved weather yesterday, ranged over North Korea, destroying roads, bridges, railway lines, and warehouses wherever targets could be found. Thirty-five Superfortress bombers yesterday blasted the big railway assembly yards at Rashin. about 20 miles from the frontier of Siberia, for the first time for more than a year. The bombers, which were escorted by Navy Panther jet fighters, hit the yards with more than 300 tons of bombs. All the planes returned to their bases— the bombers to Japan and Okinawa, and the Navy planed to their mother carriers. No anti-aircraft fire was encountered and no enemy interceptor aircraft appeared. The Defence Department in Washington said the Superfortress attack on Rashin was part of a general policy of preventing the enemy from building un his forces. This statement was given to reporters who asked if the bombing of Rashin represented a change in policy. The United States Joint Chiefs of Staff had previously forbidden air attacks on Rashin.

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