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Kec. 12.45 p.m. NEW YORK, May 25. The Associated Press correspondent on Guam says that the 500 SuperFortresses which dropped over 4000 tons of bombs on Tokio's Marunouchi business district and the Imperial Government, attacked shortly after midnight on May ZG (Japanese time).
The tax-get area runs westward from Tokio Bay, and is bordered on the north by the Imperial Palace and on the south by the Shinagawa area, which was raided on Thursday, and probably contains the best built and most modern buildings in Japan, including the largest so-called fireproof and earthquake-proof office structures, also the wharves and warehouses of a highly important sector of Tokio's waterfront, north of the Shinagawas railway yards. The raid lasted for less than an hour, the main objective of such quick unloading of the bombs being to start the maximum amount of fire in the maximum area in an attempt to overwhelm the fire-fighting efforts.
A 20th Air Force communique announcing that 12 Super-Fortresses were lost in Thursday's raid, due primarily to the heavy concentration of flak, saia that fighter opposition was less severe than usual.
The Associated Press points out that this is the heaviest loss so far suffered on the Super-Fortress missions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1945, Page 7
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