CHINA COAST HIT
U.S. NAVY FLIERS HEAVY DESTRUCTION ENEMY SHIPS AND PLANES (10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The United Press correspondent aboard Admiral McCain’s flagship says that carrier-based planes of Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet on January 3 attacked the China Coast, for the first time in the Pacific war. Fighters and bombers swept over Foochow as well as Formosa and Okinawa. The planes over Foochow meant that the Navy has _at last spanned the Pacific. Carrier-based marine flyers went into action for the first time over the north tip of Formosa, using a new type of Corsair. Low-hanging clouds obscured all the targets and made the attacks against airborne Japanese planes difficult. The attacks resulted in 197 Japanese planes and 87 skips being destroyed, sunk or damaged. The shipping was concentrated in Keelung harbour.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21606, 8 January 1945, Page 3
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