BEGINNING NEXT SUNDAY
POWERFUL NAVAL FLEET MUSTERED
, &y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received The Tokyo radio has broadcast a joint Army and Government communique giving details of the coming Allied landing in Japan. Tne communique states that air operations will begin over the mainland on Saturday, airborne troops landing at Atsugi airfield on the morning of Sunday, when two Allied fleet 3 will enter Sagami Bay, with one unit entering Tokyo Bay if conditions are favourable. Troops will be landed from warships and transports in the vicinity of Atsugi and Yokosuka on Tuesday. The newspaper Yomiuri Hochi says General Mac Arthur plans to land personally on the Atsugi airfield on Tuesday. The surrender will be formally signed on board a United States battleship in Tokyo Bay on August 31. The first group of occupation forces will number slightly more than 20,000 men.
Military circles in Washington, commenting on the Japanese statement that the Allied occupation will begin on Sunday, say the airborne troops who are to land on that day near Tokyo will secure beachheads, supply ports and naval bases for the main Allied forces. These landings, and the main landings, said by the Japanese to be due on Tuesday, will be covered by the guns of the Allied Fleet, which is to sail into Tokyo Bay as the airborne men begin to come down on the Tokyo airfield. * The full power of the American Fleet will flank Japan when General Mac Arthur begins his occupation, says a Manila message. Every available ship will be mustered in a single operation for the first time during the war. Virtually all of the hundreds of transport planes in the Pacific will be utilised by the first landing groups. These will be covered by nearly every type of aircraft. The operation may eclipse the landing on Luzon, in the Philippines, when 66,000 troops went ashore on the first day. A correspondent in the British battleship Duke of York says the British warships with the United States Fleet have already taken up special dispositions ready for the entry into Japanese home waters.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25288, 23 August 1945, Page 5
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