PLANE PLANTS
Hit By Big Machines
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)
Bee. 10.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, June 22. The 20th Air Force announced a very large-scale Super-Portress attack against the main Japanese island of Honshiu in daylight today, dropping thousands of tons of heavy explosives. .
The Associated Press Guam correspondent says that flying in clear weather 450 Super-Fortresses dropped high explosives on Kure naval arsenal and the Mitsubishi and 'Kawasaki aircraft plants at Kamaniigahara, 20 miles north of Nagoya. .
Photographs revealed that Super-Fortresses destroyed or damaged 60 per cent, of Shizuoka, 52 per cent, of Toyohashi, 40 per cent, of Hamamatsu, and half the commercial centre of Yokkaichi on June 18 and 20, also 2| square miles of Osaka, and three-quarters of a square mile of Amagasaki.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1945, Page 7
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