GIANT R.A.F. BOMBERS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21714, 16 May 1945, Page 3

GIANT R.A.F. BOMBERS

USE AGAINST JAPAN

SYDNEY, May 15.

Fleets of giant new bombers are being built in Britain for mass attacks on Japan, said Mr. John Storey, director of the Beaufort division of the Commonwealth Department of Aircraft Production, who was returned to Australia after six months in England and the United States. The new bombers would have the same bomb capacity as a standard Lancaster but would have a much greater range and heavier armament. In the United States, factories in all parts of the country were turning out Super-Fortresses or Super-Fortress parts for the war against Japan.

JAPAN'S ARMY FORCES (10 a m.) WASHINGTON, May. 15. Rear-Admiral Dewitt Ramsay, Chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, said that 70 per . cent of Japan’s Army of 5.000,000 to 8,000,000 is concentrated in Manchuria and the Japanese home islands. Instancing the Allied supply difficulties, he said that 70 tankers are needed to supply the Philippines with one tanker load of gasoline daily, 50 of which are at sea between the United States west coast and the Philippines and 10 each at loading and unloading depots.