11th Daylight Attack Made On Tokio

Northern Advocate, 5 March 1945, Page 3

11th Daylight Attack Made On Tokio

WASHINGTON, March 4.

A very large force of Super-For-tresses from the Marianas struck Tokio for the 11th time in daylight, says an official announcement. The attack was directed against strategic targets in the urban areas.

The Tokio radio says the attack tasted for 90 minutes. It was made against the Kanto area, consisting of the Tokio.-Yokohama metropolitan sector, and also the Tokai area, including the industrial cities df Nagoya and Shizuoka, Approximately 150 Super-Fortresses took part. Carrier aircraft without enemy opposition struck on Thursday at military, naval and air. installations and shipping in the Ryukyu Islands, between Formosa and Japan, says a Pacific Ocean Area’communique from Guam. The islands attacked were Amami, Nimami, Kurne,' Okinawa, Tukuno and Okinoverabu. Our aircraft shot down four planes and destroyed 37 on the ground. They sank a destroyer, six small cargo ships and two medium cargo ships. Many other ships were damaged. Thirteen American planes were lost. Heavy bombers continued their reduction of enemy war plants in Formosa. hitting the Nippon Aluminium Company’s area and other industrial targets, _ says General MacArthur’s communique. Fighters over the central sector destroyed many buildings and three large storage tanks and started fires in railway yards. Patrol planes sank five small cargo vessels in Formosa Strait. Other heavy bombers attacked the Tarakan, Labuan and Sepinggan aerodromes, Borneo, ’ leaving the runways unserviceable. Other planes bombed the Miri and Mangar airfields and the waterfront at Sandakan, hitting dry docks and shipyards.