RAID ON NAGOYA
AIRCRAFT PLANT ATTACKED (Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, Mar. 25. Over 200 Super-Fortiesses attacked the large Mitsubishi aircraft plant on the outskirts of Nagoya before dawn to-day About 225 Super-Fortrem* from Guam, Tinian ana Saipan participated in the assault, dropping high explosives instead of incendiaries on one of Japan’s greatest aeroplane engine plants. > Officials pointed out that the destruction of the Mitsubishi plant could have a widespread effect on the ability of the Japanese Army and Navy to keep planes in the air. Tokio radio broadcast a headquarters communique which claimed that about 130 Super-Fortresses raided the Nagoya district/about an hour and a-half after midnight to-day. The city area was indiscriminately bombed with explosives and incendiaries, causing fires and damage. The fires were extinguished at 4.50 a.m.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25803, 26 March 1945, Page 5
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