ATTACK ON GILBERT ISLANDS
Conclusions From Report
PEARL HARBOUR, September 19. Admiral Nimetz’s communique does not disclose the form of the assault against Tarawa and Nauru, but they were probably heavily bombed by car-rier-based torpedo-planes and dive-bomb-ers, says the Associated Press. The fact that the bombers were able to press home their- attacks for several hours indicates that they caught the Japanese unawares and that the first assaults probably knocked out whatever air power the enemy had available for interception. Apparently the Japanese air strength at both bases was light because of the enemy’s heavy plane losses in New Guinea and the Solomons. Following closely on the Marcus Island raid, the latest attack indicates that the American Navy has mustered carrier replacements for the losses suffered in the early months of the war and forecasts increasing thrusts deeper into enemy territory.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 306, 21 September 1943, Page 5
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