PACIFIC BOMBING
MANY ISLANDS ATTACKED (Official Wireless) RUGBY, May 21 Bombing attacks on the Kuriles, Carolines, Nauru and Marshall Islands are reported in a Pacific Fleet communique. A single Liberator bombed Shimushiro and Keto Islands, in the Kuriles, on Thursday night, and Navy Venturas bombed Shimushu Island before dawn on Friday, starting large fires on an airfield.
Mitchells attacked Nauru in daylight on Friday, hitting the phosphate workings and defence installations and causing large explosions and fires. Mitchells bombed the Ponape Island airfield. Other bombers and fighters attacked remaining enemy positions in the Marshalls on Thursday night and in daylight on Friday.
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Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22355, 23 May 1944, Page 3
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