YANGTZE SHIPPING SUNK
MUSTANGS ACTIVE IN CHINA. (10.30 a.m.) CHUNGKING, Jan. 4. Mustangs yesterday exploded a Yangtze River steamer, also six vessels loaded with gasoline, and probably sank another steamer, says a communique. Other planes bombed the Shihkiyano docks, 50 miles south-east of Hankow and destroyed two enemy planes in the air and one on the ground. Airfields in the Hankow area were attacked and three planes were probably destroyed. Mustangs also attacked Tsinan airfield, about 200 miles south of Peiping, for the third time and destroyed 13 planes on the ground and damaged another 11. A Liberator sank a cargo ship west of Hainan. Fighters supporting the ground troops at Wanting, bombed and strafed enemy positions, wiping out 150 Japanese in one concentration with fire bombs.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 31, 5 January 1945, Page 5
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