Saturday, June 16, 2012

June 16, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 16, 1944:

WASHINGTON (UP)—Mighty American B-29 Superfortress bombers operating from secret bases in China struck devastating blows on targets in Japan Thursday in an historic raid which launched a new type of aerial offensive destined to become global in scope.

PEARL, HARBOR (UP) —
United States assault troops attempting to wrest Saipan island from the fiercely resisting J a p a n e s e garrison have secured beachheads and are advancing inland against well-organized defenses, 


Tokyo Says Raiders Hit Kyushu Isle
 



 
Twin Falls, Idaho, Friday Morning, June 16, 1944
Super-Fortresses Strike Large
Cities From Bases in China;
Mariana Isles Invasion Gaining
Targets of Air Dreadnaughts
Reported to Include Tokyo;
Army Chiefs Hail Offensive
WASHINGTON (UP)—Mighty American B-29 Superfortress bombers operating from secret bases in China struck devastating blows on targets in Japan Thursday in an historic raid which launched a new type of aerial offensive destined to become global in scope.
The war department, in its first terse announcement of the attack, did not name the targets hut Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson later said that "several large cities were bombed," and Rep. Joe Starnes (D-Ala.) said on the house floor that one of them was Tokyo.
Stimson said the raids brought "the heart of Japan under the guns and bombs of the Army air forces."
He described the blow as "another phase of our war in the Pacific" and congratulated "the men who planned this action and manned the planes that carried it out."
The war department did not name the raiders' base but it can be said that the huge bombers—the world's most lethal aerial weapon — flew Large numbers of them
sent into the –China-Burma-India theater some months ago. It iapBearea;that
use of the ship^ was delayed until they could hit Jap war centers with a terrifying
cumulative effect instead of a simple “token” bombing.
New Type' Offensive
Army Chief of Staff Gen. George  Marshall and Gen. H. H., Arnold,  chief of the Army air forces hailed the raid as opening- a “new type of offensive that will soften up Japan for the kill. They addedthat the offensive tactics developed
will be used later on a. global basis.
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                     Japs Say Korea Raided'
                    By United Press
                A Japanese broadcast reported by FCC monitors early.
                Friday said that several enemy planes had raided Korea,
                a Japanese-occupied territory on  the Asiatic mainland.
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It was the first time .that the newly perfected aerial dreadnaught was disclosed to have. been, used in combat although its existence long has been known. It is so powerful that it relegates the Flying Fortress and Liberator to a medium-range . bombing category.

Progress of
New Pacific
Landing Told
PEARL, HARBOR (UP) —
United States assault troops attempting to wrest Saipan island from the fiercely resisting J a p a n e s e garrison have secured beachheads and are advancing inland against well-organized defenses, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz' second communique on the Marianas invasion revealed Thursday night.
In general, "the fighting is heavy but good progress is being made against well-organized defenses," the Pacific fleet headquarters announcement said.
The A m e r i c a n assault troops are driving forward against military, mortar and
machine gun fire in the battle for possession of the strategic base only 1.449 miles
 and hours' flying from Tokyo.

Tokyo Says
Raiders Hit
Kyushu Isle
SAN FRANCISCO --(UP)—
Japanese imperial headquarters announced Thursday night about 20 American B-29 Super-Fortresses and B-24 Liberators operating from China raided northern Kyushu island in the J a p a n e s e homeland Friday morning (Japan time), and
Tokyo radio identified the targets as the industrial cities of Yawata, Moji, and Kokura.

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