GREAT CARRIER STRIKE
234 Vessels Sunk Or Damaged By Telegraph—N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright (7.30 p.m.) GUAM, July 17. In a special communique detailing the results of the great carrier strike on Saturday and Sunday, Admiral Nimitz says that aircraft of the Third Fleet de- I streyed or damaged every target they encountered. In spite of adverse weather 159,000 tons of shipping were sunk or damaged. The 140 ships sunk totalled 71,000 tons and included 12 medium cargo ships, six train ferries, one large cargo ship, a destroyer and two destroyer escorts. The 234 ships damaged totalled 88,000 tons. Great havoc was caused to Japan’s faltering internal transport system. A total of 84 locomotives were destroyed and 45 damaged. In addition, .factories, oil tanks, railroad yards, bridges, radio stations, canneries and docks were destroyed or damaged. A total of 37 Japanese planes were destroyed on the ground and 45 others were damaged. American losses throughout many hundreds of sorties were 24 planes. No enemy airborne opposition was encountered.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23257, 19 July 1945, Page 5
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