ACTIVITY IN CHINA
CHUNGKING, Jan. 4. Mustangs yesterday exploded a Yangtse River steamer, and also six vessels loaded with gasoline, and probably sank another steamer, says a Fourth Air Force communique. Other planes bombed Shihhkiyang docks, 50 miles south-east of Hankow, and destroyed two enemy planes in the air and one on the ground. Airfields at Hankow were attacked and three planes probably destroyed.' Northern-based Mustangs 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 ground troops at Wanting bombed and strafed enemy positions, wiping out 150 Japanese in one concentration with fire bombs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25736, 6 January 1945, Page 5
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