MARCUS & WAKE
U.S. CARRIER ATTACK
700 SORTIES CARRIED OUT (By Telcßraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 2 p.m. WASHINGTON, May 26. Details of the attack on the American carrier force on Marcus and Wake Islands last Friday and Saturday are given in a Pacific Fleet communique. Aircraft at Marcus Island made 373 sorties and dropped 148 tons of bombs on aerodrome installations. They destroyed ammunition and supply dumps, and damaged gun positions. Only two enemy aircraft were seen. A medium bomber was shot down near the target and a twin-engined plane strafed on the ground. A small cargo ship was set on lire north of Marcus. We lost four planes. A total of 15 tons of bombs was dropped in 354 sorties at Wake. No enemy aircraft were sighted. Twenty buildings were destroyed and others damaged. Storage areas and other aerodrome installations were heavily hit. Several small craft were sunk or damaged. No planes were lost. Liberators, on Tuesday, ■ bombed Ponape Island. Other planes attacked enemy positions in the Marshalls and bombed and severely strafed defence installations. A Navy communique announces that a destroyer and 14 fnerchant vessels have been sunk by United States submarines in the Pacific and Far East.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 123, 26 May 1944, Page 6
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