MACARTHUR'S PLANES OUT
SYDNEY, June 25. Support for the U.S. navy's Task Force 58 in its Central Pacific strikes is still being given by land-based aircraft of General Mac Arthur's command.
Today's South-west Pacific communique reports the destruction of or severe damage to 22 grounded Japanese planes hit by Liberators which raided Yap in the Carolines. Other Liberators attacked Ulithi Island, 90 miles northeast of Yap, and Sorol Island, 160 miles south-east 'of Yap, destroying piers and starting fires.
Woleai and Truk were also bombed,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 149, 26 June 1944, Page 5
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