ATTACK UPON TOKIO
AIRPLANE PLANT BOMBED
Rec. 9.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27
Admiral Marc Mitscher's carrier planes raiding Tokio on Sunday operated through extremely adverse weather, says Admiral Nimitz's communique. Carrier planes also raided Hachijo Jima on Monday.
[Hachijo Jima is 120 miles south of Japan.]
The principal land target was tlie Nakajima aircraft plant at Ota, of which more than half is now damaged. Thirty-seven Japanese planes were shot down, 121 destroyed on the ground, and 175 damaged. Installations and hangars were heavily damaged. Five small enemy vessels were sunk and five probably sunk. Seven smaller craft were also probably sunk.
Admiral Spruance's supporting fleet was undamaged during the two-day strike, but light fleet units were damaged as the fleet was retiring. Nine American fighter planes were shot down.
Tokio radio said that 150 American planes raided Hachijo Jima on Monday.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 50, 28 February 1945, Page 5
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