BOMBING OF JAPAN
KEAVY DESTRUCTION BY SUPERFORTRESSES (Ree. 11.5 a.m.) GUAM, August 17. Super-Fortresses in the campaign against Japan destroyed the major industrial capacity of 59 cities at the cost of 437 planes and more than 3,000 airmen, said General Spaatz. More than 600 airmen were rescued. The planes travelled more than 100,000,000 miles in flights from the Marianas and [ndia, and dropped 169,421 tons of bombs. It is known that the Super-Fortress losses were heavy in non-combat flying, particularly in the early part of the campaign, when the crews were less familiar with the aircraft than now.
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Evening Star, Issue 25565, 18 August 1945, Page 7
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