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Harbor, Torpeooed Ships; Crew Lived To Tell Tale
Jap Homeland
Within Range All
Types of Planes
Jackson Reports
Jo Truman On
War Trial Plans
Leaves Unanswered
Questions on When
Cases Will Open
country is free to prosecute under
treason charges In its own tribunals
pressing their appreciation to the
Rotary Club and other.civic clubs
for the many courtesies extended
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GUAM, June 7. uM—-Nearly 600
Superfortresses and fighters smash-
ed mile after mile of war plants
deep in plans for the next phase
of the American march on Japan.
Radio Tokyo already was report-
ing that American invasion forces
next will land on Japan itself.
to do so may
with adhesive
The Am
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the proseci
Gen. Stilwell
Confers With -
Gen. Mac Arthur
any other mal
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Dr. Albert Vet.ting was in charge
of the meeting and introduced the
speakers.
Quests at the meeting were R B.
Sweet of Bryan: Lorch Fair. Si/C,
and Homer Smith. •
Pillars
ward.
a chief counsel in.
of Axis war crim-
sent back to the scenes of their
crimes for. trial by local authori-
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INDIA 4
IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN— During Memorial Day ser-
vices in France, three American Red Cross girls decorate
graves in a military cemetery there. Kneeling is Adele M.
Hyrkin, Brooklyn, N. Y. Standing, left, Mildred Jones, Man-
chester. Tenn., and Katherine W. Illi ng of Los Angeles, Cal
einploy
Labor'
ed the
ly con-
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act. There was no mention, how- citation
ever, of dealings with the enemy/
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
Inals reported “do substantial dif-
ferences' between this country and
the British on the prosecution of
14_words,
it’s good advice to follow not
only during war loans but every
day. You can't help too much
to win the war, - 7 fir
From the bridge of the surfaced
ship, Fluckey could see Japanese
ships erupting in the night like a
2 Raa
cases where the parties refuse to nvm area
obey WLB directives. North of Japan. Liberators of the
{e
persons or property in violation of A . c.
international law, there including Canning ~ugar
Americans Seize Control of Davao
Gulf, New Landings on Mindanao
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ed to beat
the Japs and
to complete
the job in Europe, put the war-
time credo of Americans in these
Aden
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Yards of West
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how many ahl
night .Fluckey,r, . M ..
and count. Mrs. Odell Bam has received they dampen the windshield instead
Japanese escorta tame in hot pur- word that her husband, Pfc. Odell of the strmp. They should avoid
suit, tossing a hall of shells in Elam of the 24th Division, has redeated dampening of the stamp.
ow traitorous nationals— "Quislings. the President could get home and and drawn, 60 cents per pound.
Lavals, Lord Haw-Haws ’and the make the necessary arrangements Prices were originally 42 cents
like.” on the spot." and 81 cents.
Mitchell of the New York mag- existence of a geograpl
azine "Amerasia." coaled haven, otherwise unident l-
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- special accent was placed on "assurance that the Anglo-American line of communications from Europe
I to the Asiatic theater of war will remain unbroken.” How the air trails and the waterways to the
scene of the Japanese conflict traverse the troubled areas is shown on the map. It has been grimly
pointed out that any closure of the short cut to the Indian ocean and the Pacific by way of the Medi-
terranean and the Suez canal would be disastrous for Allied forces. It would necessitate the long
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Cleburne
Mrs Folr rtated that the firm
which was just a year «■ old June
6, now has a payroll of more than
$150,000 yearly in Cleburne and
that plans were underway for fur-
Aher expansion.
L^WIe 'Prissy Missy garments are
Government Prepares New Moves in
Crackdown for Defiance of Orders
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Cut To 5 Lbs.
Per Person
I A survey of canning sugar
iisuei.ee has been made in the
Fort Worth District by Mr O.
t. Fletcher, District Food Ra-
Molting Officer.
OF OKINAWA; JAPS ARE
CROWDED INTO POCKET
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ter of broadening of the Polish
"There were no secret engage-
everything discussed at Yalta
could be made ‘ the subject of a
verba turn report," Churchill said
Laborite Morgan Price raised the
question of secret agreements at
tual Himit o you buvinK Pgwer-
_____"AY .7!™.
on fryers was announced today
3. A type of case which each
will find
• tran; 3 parts or xoime or saWi
% dust, cotton seed hulls or peanut
hunsi 16 pounds of andumi "ary
fire leaped from several vessels.
The first target settled in the
water Some of the vessels hit were
obscured by others burning in the
line of 'vision.
Ships Explode
Fire Demolition
LBombs Dropped
On War Plants
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WAR LOAN
The object was to prevent any hit last week eastward to cover
weakening of the adninistration's undamaged war plants and thou-
labor-management pelley whien sands of small home factories un-
enrtdilment of 100,000 tons or-
derad by the national office
Saulis it necessary to limit all
applications not already process-
ed. to an average of five pounds
of sugar per person
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No Other Secret
Agreements
The new drive to obtain compli- Tax Stamps will be placed on sale
ance with WLB directives developed in all post offices and major offic-
when it eppeared that Congress es .of the collector of internal rove-
had abandoned any intention of nue on Saturday. June •. 1045
enacting legislation for enforce- The law requires the owner of
ment of WLB orders James F every motor vehicle which is used
Byrnes former War Mobilization upon the highway to buy this
director, and his successor Fred stamp and to display it on the
M Vinson. advocated such Ton- vehicle beginning July 1. 1945
gressional action after the Chicage The law provides both cash and
District Federal Court held that jail penalties for failure to pay
President Roosevelt exceeded his this tax To protect themselves
authority in the seizure of Mont- aginst unnecessary penalties. Col
gomery Ward. * Co., properties in lector Thomas advised owners of
seven cities. -motor vehicles not to be misled by
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Reports of damage to crops from
gn ashoppers have been received at
the office of County Agent C.,A.
Munich.
At the present time, most ot
the hoppers Are in the pastures
and fence rows but as the grass
dies down, they are entering the
flelds. Yeung cotton, corn, and
sorghums are being damaged.
Fw baits for destroying the
hoppers have been anncnuced by
Muneeh, who warned that both are
highly poisonous Any bait used
should be moist when spread and
should be scattered over the
ground, about . 10 pounds to the
acre He urged that the bait not
— be dropped in piles along the
I ground’
i ‘ Following ure two formulas which
+ have proved effective in destroy-
ing the insects: . .
• Bodium Arsenite—Use 2 quarts
of sodium arsenite, 100 poundn of
wheat bran and 10 gallons of wa-
military establishment, including
the general staff, and in the fi-
nancial. Industrial and economic
life of Germany who by all civil-
ize‛ standards are provable to be
common criminals.
He said legal charges against the
top Nazis would be divided into
three classes:
1. Atrocities and offenses against
said last night in announcing the per selected and which won him
arrests here and in New York that the nations’ highest award was
the data from confidential govern- ''virtually a suicide mission--a na-
ment files usually was turned over val epic." ,
LONDON, June 7. (U.P—Prime
Minizter Churchill told Commons
today there were no secret agree-
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support. aa
The communique also
that Japanese positims
was granted today
Naval Epic
to them and other service , men
while at home on furlough
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SAUDI <
on labor unions
for defiance at
the killing and mistreatment of
wounded and prisoners of war, fir-
ing on /undefended localities, pill-
age and wanton destruction and
ill-treatment of inhabitants of oc-
cupied territory.
2. Atrocities and persecutiona on
racial and religious grounds com-
mitted since 1933.
3 Invasions of other countries
and initiation of wars of aggres-
sion in violation of international
law or treaties.
Soviets Net Conomiatedlt
1, 1946 Where possible the stamp
should be placed on the windshield
as recommended by the proper of-
fials of each State.___
known writer
used some of
arraigned in r
ments entered into at all except by the Jchnson County War Price
that we kept secret the addition of and Ration Board Office.
two members of Russia and the Ceiling price now for fryers is
desire of the United States until alive, 40 cents per pound; dressed
Varsrnmoenwainthe“detetret~dects- Announced Today .
ions of the conference?"
Churchill replied:
llth Air Force bombed the Kata-
oka naval base on Shimushu and
President Truman directed seta' search, aircraft, of fleet, airwing
ures of West Virginia and Texas four hit installations in the Hayake
oil companies yesterday. They were River an** of Paramushiru yes-
the fourth end fifth companies terday,,,
taken over in 10 days. In the same To the south. a Pacific fleet
period Daria imposed sanctions on communique revealed, American
two clothing firms and a bus planes have begun attacks n
cempany. This device was used Japan proper and on the Ryukyu
only once previously by the sta- Islands from nwly-established air-
bilization director in three years fields on Okinawa. Nearly 30 Am-
Mr Truman has ordered eight etican “smaller type" planes from
seizures in less than two months, Okinawa attacked Japanese airfield;,
including a San Francisco ship- on the southern home island of
yard, two southern textile mills. Kyushui yesterday, a Tokyo broad- ,
Chicago truck companies and Penn- cast said.
sylvania’s anthracite mints. The A --------„Tp‛
late Mr. Roosevelt directed only A AA I Ten I AU
28 seizures in 40 months to en HULU U5C IdX
labor disputes. A '
Many of the cases before Davis Gfamne (In n
have been pending for some •LCIIDS •O UI
months. He is said to feel that A _ A t
further delay would endanger the Kala K-4pr~w
centinued success of the govern- wait HCLUI Ud Y
ment s policy for peaceful settle- . . • «
mentpfolaborimansgement disputee.....w A Thomas. Collector ot m-
New Drive ' teral Revenue, announced todayrat
1 that the new 65 00 Automobile Use '
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WASH INO TON, June 7. (U.P-- I running.
Six perrons, including two State , It is the sort of thriller with
Department officials and navy lieu* which boys’ series books about war
tenant, were under arrest today in are filled but which sound too in-
connection with the theft of high- credible really to have happened
ly confidential government papers This episode was real enough
classified as "restricted" and "top however, and earned Cmdr. Eugene
secret." B. Fluckey of the submarine Barb
The five men and one woman the Medal of Honor and his entire
specifically were charged with crew the Presidential Unit Cita-
stealing the documents in a con- tion. The Medal of Honor award
spiracy to violate the espionage was previously announced but the
TIBET CHINA chunokio
4., m
that the
appears on each stamp
the EMEnGkNCY OPERATION
Bill Barker, son of Uhlan Bar-
ker of Glen Ross Star Route.
shelled. suggesting that the navy
might be softening the enemy’s
defenses there for landings like
those eon Southern Mindanao.
Such a landing would seal the
doom of an estimated 20,000 to
30,000 Japanese troops in Northern
Luzon, now being pursued north-
ward by twin drives along High-
ways 4 and 11.
The 37th Division gained two
and one-half miles more along
Highway 4 after capturing the town
of-Aritee They knocked out three
anks, but resistance generally wks
light.
Prices on Fryers
and The bombardiers shifted their
War sights over Osaka from the con-
gested waterfront industrial district
4
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hbi ted a number of the Prsiy properties or to impose economic with densolition minsiles designed
Mint varment* manufantured in sonctions in more than a score of tn spread destruction over d mart- .
now found in 29 states and the ter-
ritory of Hawaii, and are being
featured and advertised by many
leading stores," the speaker stated
ments made at the Yalta confer-! shdli EigsWnde anort’PliksMex-
ence except that giving Russia two
extra votes in the security con-
ference.
"The conversations of course pro-
ceeded in a very intimate manner,
and I am not prepared to say that
Ur. Mix water and sodium arsen.
He and add to bran. Do not ado
‘ to this mixture.
to Philip Jacob Jaffe, Russian- Here is the story
born eo-editor with Kate Louise Fluckey had long
To the Ptopit
of this Community
"My Thinking—My Money—
My Time will stay in this war
to the finish.”
Tsd R. Gamble, National DI-
d
g* -M
start or how long they would takes < ■
The answer to this, he said. def
« .2. .. u.. ..___.2 L. would interfere with all-out pro- touched by the earlier “fire baths."
Mrs. Madeline Fota, director of quction for th defeat of Japan. Bomb Naval Base
Westway Sports wenr,adaressed psasbtwastlonendrrctor.witimmena.orThe."omnsmuea
Jackson said the Allies would,
accuse "a large number of indi- A
viduals and officials who were in , T
authority in the government, in Hi
of anoke poured sky on Co Ingleside, rex., which was
The side at one vessel
_____ with 3,500 tons of fire and demo-
ittion bombs today in the seccna
tig raid in a week on Osnka,
Program Given
At Rotary Club
By Westway Co.
MANILA, June 7. UP-—American
troops seized control of Davao gulf (
today with new landingc on South- ,
ern Mindanao, and the beaches of ।
Northern L son were shelled pos-
sibly in preparation for a similar
move, .
TTRP4 of the Tenth Corps made
two lanidings in Southern Mindanao ,
Today’s community an
tional war loan totals shot
fleet your personal determi
to see the war through,
gardlessowhat the Way Bond
score is today, h is not high
Jaffs and Miss Mitchell and fled by the Navy, which
Mark Julius Qayn, nationally large number of Japanese I
Yalta. If there were none, he ask- --------
edverwhyndnns X tne Russian Chance in Ceiling
Lacking such legislatton, Davis felse rumors alleging that this
is determined to make the fullest tax. has been repealed
possible uae of the existing war The stamps will be sold over the
labor disputes act and executive counter at all post offices and ma-
orders to settle strikes or threat- jor offices of internal revenue col.
enedwork stoppages lectors In addition. collectors of
Many at the non-compliance internal revenue will fill mail or-
case* involve employers' refusal to de" when accompanied by cash,
grant maintenance of membership money orders, or certified checks
as ordered by the WLB The Personal checks cannot be accept-
board reiterated its union security ed for the purchase of revenue
policy in the case of the Humtie stams, , .0.. .... .
' - - 3 - The law requires that the stamp
- - „ _ .seized yesterday for refusal to be prominently displayed on the
blew out like the fired magazine g^nt maintenance of membership motor vehicle on and after July
of a warship. Two ships exploded) ,....., .
direction* a shower of tracers in an Purple Heart Medal
Ony the Awarded Pfc. Elami
■ had no time to stop
WASHINGTON, June 7. (U.P-
The navy revealed today the daring
exploit of a U.S. submarine that
sneaked at night into a harbor
Jammed, with Japanese ships, sur-
faced under the muzzles of enemy
guns and torpedoed vessels all
about it, then got away in a mir-
idly tankers and mt
ere it was on a
are poor visibiuty. t
his target.' A /
jbaoum
7/%mascus
g IRAN
Po \__
kJ mans-oroawnTk.
Ha check of applications al-
/reedy processed by Johnson
' County revealed the tact that
195 per cent of tire allotted quota
has already been issued. A
tons of bombs on enemy installa-
tions.'
Formosa got its regular pasting
with escorted Liberators dropping
137 tons of explosives on railway
yards at Takao. It was the sec-
ond straight day Takao was bomb-
ed
The heavy bombers of the Far
Eastern Air Force extended their
target range with an attack on
the Batavia seaplane bases in
Western Java. Direct hits were
scored on a large escort vessel
6 Charged With Theft
of Secret Papers
the. direction/of the fleeing Berti been swarded the Purple Heart Motorist* who desi
Many hit cldse-by but all missed ra. Elam was wounded in the reinforce the stam
The junks confused the enemy and upper left atm and back, but is tape of simllar a
sevehal of them were taken as i eported to be improving nicely. ' To protect themselves Against
targets instead of the Barb \-------- . lose or theft. Collector Thomas ad-
The escaping submarine execu‛- CORRECTION • vised motorists to keep a separate
ed a perfect maneuver ot “broken- Postal receiots for May. 494urecord of the serial number which
field running" and' reached open showed an increase over the same i
water at dawn. A Japanese plane month last year instead of a
spotted her and she submerged for crease aa was revorted in
the first' time since sighting the Tmes-Review on Wednesday/
tarzet the night before" And the Receipt* for May. 1944 were
entire crew lived to tell the lalt.. $5,70213 instead of /$6,702.13 m re-
Puckey dnkes his home at 801 ported May, 1946 'receipts totaled -----r
Dregma Landings. Annapolis, Md M,67174 burns
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There were no now reports on
the parallel advance along High-
way 11, northeast of Baguio.
The offensive in Northern Luzon
tack SmEyeninazppoowrrm 354 and underita ownlaws agalnstits
voyage around the African tip. Also, fighting in the Middle East might well prevent RAF and U. 8.
’ Airmen from using the fields in the area for stopovers and refueling. The inact r ia close-up of
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nest of volcanoes Columns of
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GUAM, June 7. (U.P- The 10th
Army hurled the last Japanese
on Southern Okinawa Into a 25-
square-mile pocket today and ra-
dio Tokyo aaid their final defeat
was in sight.
Tokyo conceded Okinawa’s plight
was due in part to the nffective-
- ness of American rocket rhips and
planes in preventing Japanese sui-
cide aircraft from crashing into
American werships off the Mend
Ragged remnants of the Japan
m garrison were making their
final stand from atop a 20-foot
cliff shielding the southern tip
of Okinawa and forming the back:
bone of their doomed pocket.
First Division Marines threaten-
ed momentarily to lop off the
Oroku peninsula, northwest comer
of the pocket. They drove more
than half way across the base of
the peninsula yesterday to within
3,000 yards of Itoman, west coast
. । ichor of the diff top defense
212se ahrznn
States, visited the Southwest Pa-1 One landing was made on Cape
cilic recently and conferred with San Agustin, on the southern dp
Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his of the peninsula which terms the
staff..it was announced today, eastern shore of'the gulf, and the
Neither the purpose nor the re- other on Balut ISlalid, 10 mues
suits of Stilwell’s mission were re- offshore at the western entrance
vealed. ... .—to the gulf.
However, the visit’ came ata Destroyerg, supported the land-
time when Gen. Douglas Mac- ings. Today's communique reported
Arthur, as new commander of all that enemy radio station* and
ground forces tn the Pacific, was supply dumps were destroyed by
the invading troops with naval
Conference Important
American navel sources in an-
other theater said as long ago as
last month that preliminary pre-
parations had begun, for. an am-
phibious landing on the Japanese
home islands.
Stilwell has charge of the train-
ing of American ground forces for
the Pacific, and his conferences
with MacArthur took on added im-
portance in this respect.
Strategic Pause
The" meeting fame as the PaA
cific campaign appeared about to
enter a strategic pause. The bloody
tattle of Okinawa was about over
and American troop* in Northern
Luzon rapidly were clearing Jap-
anese remntnts from- the Caga-
yan Valley.
BothaOkinawa and Luzon already
were being converted into major
bases for an invasion of Japan.
Stilwell probably knows as much.
If not more, than any other Am-
erican general about Japan and
the Japanese. As commander of
American forces in China, Burma
and India and chief of staff to
Chiang Kai-Shek before taking his
present post, he fought the Japan-
ese throughcut Southeast Asia.
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WASHINGTON, June 7. I. -
Supreme Court Justice Robert Ht
Jackson, , American prosecutor 01
Axis war criminals, reported af
length to President Truman today
on plans to" bring European war
criminals including the German
general staff, to trial.
Jackson delivered to the Presi-
dent a 5,00C word report on his
preliminary trip to London, but
left unanswered the questions of
when the war crimes trials would 1
homeless by American air raids on
WASHINGTON, June 7. (U.P— Japanese cities will be moved to
The government today prepared farms to help boost food produc-
swift new moves in its latest tion.
-TURKEYS
major war riminals. He noted,
however, that the Soviet Union was
not yet committed'. I )
Jeckron MM the proVislonal gov-
ernment of France had accepted
in principle ihe American pro-
posals for trials before an inter-
national tribunal, and would de-
signate it* representatives shortly.
Russia has been informed of the
British-American steps, he said,
and “there is no reason to doubt
that it will unite in the prosecu-
tion."
He said that during his visit to
London and the European theater,
he established standards to seg-
regate from the case against the
principal offenders, cases against
many other criminals who will not
ba brought before the International
tribunal. These cases, he said, fell
into three categories:
Three Categories
1. Offenses against military per-
sonnel of the United States, such
as the execution of American air-
men who crash-landed, punishable
in the field by military author
ities.
2. Offenders who, under the
1943 Moscow declaration, are to be
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10TH YEAR 1^0 166 ? • CLEBURNE^JEXAS^HURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1945
600 B-29s, FIGHTERS SMASH OSAKA
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Capture Airfield
" A third of the peninsula itself
, already had been cleared by First
Division Marines, smashing down
from ita northwest tip. They had
captured Naha airfield, biggest and
last Japanese air base on the ia-
land.
Army troops in the center battie d
to the slopes of the enemy-held
diff, known aa tile Yeaju-Bake es-
_ carpment. There among the scrubby
pines and mountain caves, the bat-
tered eremy remnants were fight-
ing to the death.
There was no room for further
retreat. Behind them was the sea.
The Americana ran roughshod
over th? Japanese in their advances
yesterday. They overran five vil-
lages in 24 hours. Some enemy
home guards armed with bamboo
• spears nurrendered at sight of the
American might Others were kill-
ed. „
Nips Making _ _
, Final Stand On
200.Foot Cliff
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MAN ASKS Alim I
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Battle End in Eight ,
• Complete conquest of Okinawa
"was only days away. Tokyo broad-
casts said the end at the battle
was in sight with the “war situ-
ation zradually becoming more
disadvantagecus to our side.”
Tokyo said fresh American troops
had launched “the big push” on
Okinawa with overwhelmingly su-
perior strength.
Another Tokyo broadcast con-
ceded that American rocket ships
and planes had checked the effec-
tive use of Japnese suicide pines
against the American fleet off
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However, the Japanese continued
to thrrow the suicide aircraft reck-
lessly against the fleet in an ef-
fort to delay a* long as possible
an American Invesion of Japan
< itself.
Two more American surface units
- not ’ otherwise identified were
tive use of Japanese suicide planes
es This brought the toll of Amer-
ican whipping since April 28 to
seven light naval units sunk and
44 damaged. ’ ________
Grasshoppers
Damaging Crops
auxiliary Japanese ships were in
an anchorage behind a protecting
screen of escort vessels which were
concentrated on every logical ap-
proach. The water was so shallow
that an attacking submarine would
have to remain surfaced during its
approach and tor at least an hour
afterward*.
Still, anchored there in the bay
was one of the best targets ever
presented by the enemy. Fluckey
decided to attack despite the heavy
odds •
Hi* danger-laden escape after
the attack was a part of his care-
fully laid plans He was certain
there would be enemy search
lighta, gunfire and a hot pursuit
concentrated against his ship.
* Surprise Advantage
Against these, he would have the
advantage* ot surprise and his
plan. Thi involved flight through
uncharted waters filled . with
mines and rocks and a route packed
with fishing funks. He figured the
Tapanese escort* would hesitate to
make a run through the rocks and
would find" the fishing junks a
handicap. ,
. Presently, the Barb moved in-
side the screen of Japanese es-
corts. She let. go with all the tor-
pedoes she could in the time avan-
able, gave full right rudder and
moved toward the rocks at flank
Japan’s greatest industrial city.
Radio Tokyo said. 40 other Thun- 9
derbolt. Lightning. Mustang and
Hellcat fighters, apparently from
new American "bases on Okinawa. .
almost simultaneously made a two-
hour leaflet raid on the Kago-
shima area of Kyushu in Southern
Japan.
The broadcast indicated that
the air war "over Japan had en-
tered a new phase with the com-
pletion of bases on Okinawa bring-
ing the enemy homeland within
range of all types of American
planes from fighters to B-29s.
strike Arsenal
Tokyo admitted that Lightnings
had not appeared over Japan prop-
er before.
Some 400 to 450 Superfortresses
and 150 Mustangs struck shortly
after noon at Qsaka arsenal, the
largest in Japan, and other major
war plants in hitherto little-dmaged
Eastern Osaka.
Today’s attack boosted the to-
tal devastated area of Japan’s main
industrial cities well over the 90-
square-mile mark, an area larger
than the borough of Brooklyn,
N Y.
Tokyo said 50,000 Japanese fam-
ilies—200,000 persons — rendered
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