BRITISH ENGAGED
MINOR DAMAGE SUFFERED ENEMY ISLANDS ATTACKED (Reed. 8.30 p.m.) GUAM, April 7 Admiral Nimitz announced that British warships and planes extensively damaged ground installations in the Sakisnimas and put out of action 31 Japanese aircraft in a three-day attack beginning on March 31. Some major units of the British fleet were slightly damaged by Japanese aircraft, but ail the major units remained fully operational. The Associated Press correspondent says the battleship King George V was possibly damaged. British naval observers returning from the strike said that five enemy aircraft made a concerted attack against the battleship. Four out of ten planes which attacked the British fleet simultaneously with the Okinawa landings were shot down. A British task force attacked airfields and other installations on Ishigaki and Miyako, in the Sakishima Group, on April 6 and 7. British fighters destroyed five enemy aircraft.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25172, 9 April 1945, Page 5
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