FROM IWO JIMA
JAPS STRIKE AGAIN Rec. 11.30 a.m. NEW YORK. Dec. 28. Demonstrating the difficulty of effectively knocking out enemy air bases, 20 Japanese bombers raided the Super-Fortress base on Saipan within 24 hours of Ihe co-ordinated naval and air bombardment of Iwc Jima from where the raiders are supposed to have come, says the Associated Press correspondent on Saipan. Only a few enemy planes got close enough to drop bombs on the island. One of our planes was set on fire and five others damaged. One American was killed and seven were injured. | Four of our night fighters destroyed i three Japanese planes, flak shot do\vn one, probably destroyed a second, and damaged a third.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 155, 29 December 1944, Page 5
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