OVER TOKIO AGAIN
GENERAL DOOLITTLE
TOKIO, September 3. Lieut-General Doolittle, Commander of the Bth Air Force, flew over Japan for the first time since his famed initial raid of April 18, 1942. General Doolittle, General Le May, and Lieut.General Nathan Twining, of the 20th Air Force, surveyed the bomb damage in Tokio and Yokohama from a low altitude. General Twining said that the Japanese, unlike the Germans, did not attempt to repair the damage, and seemed to be stupefied and helpless. Everything in Japan was going to pot. General Le May said' that the Japanese had handed over their best motor transport—practically all they had—but that the cars did not last 24 hours. He added that the attacks on oil refineries were so successful that the Japanese had only about one tanker of oil left at the end of the war.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 7
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141OVER TOKIO AGAIN Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 7
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