LIBERATORS BOMB IWOJIMA
AIRFIELDS IN MARIANAS USED Washington, Aug. 12 Army Liberators bombed Iwojima in the Volcano Islands on Thursday, dropping 47 tons of bombs on the airfield and adjacent installations, says the Pacific Fleet communique. The attack was the first full-scale heavy strike from the newly-won airfields in the Marianas, says the Pearl Harbour correspondent of the Associated Press of America. This starts a new stage in the Seventh Air Forces’ leapfrogging air neutralisation campaign across the Pacific.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 14 August 1944, Page 5
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