END OF WAR SAW JAPAN SHORT OF FUEL
Reeeived Tuesdav, 11.40 p.tn. PEAHL HAKBOUIi, April 23, •Tapan was so shorf of fuel durin^- the flosing months of the war that the soybean was used to (Jrive the super butlcsliip Yamato on its linal suieide attack on Okinawa on April 7, 1045. This was revea]ed b.v a naval teehnical mjssion whi(ih has completed a study ot Jtpiin's war effort. The mission also 'lisclosed that fuel was so scaree that Mtiiiy ships laj' idle in home ports under •iuierican air attaek, while the Japanese fonsidered dumping rafts of sup-. Phes in the sea off Korea and Eormosa in the hope that the currents would. carry them to Japan.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19460424.2.26
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 24 April 1946, Page 5
Word Count
116END OF WAR SAW JAPAN SHORT OF FUEL Chronicle (Levin), 24 April 1946, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in