DAYLIGHT RAID ON NAURU
WASHINGTON, May 21. Bombing attacks on the Kuriles, Carolines, Nauru, and the Marshalls are reported in a Pacific Fleet communique. A single Liberator bombed Shimushiri and Keto Islands, in the Kuriles, on Thursday night, and navy Venturas bombed Shumushu Island before dawn on Friday, starting large fires on. an airfield. Mitchells attacked Nauru in daylight on Friday, hitting phosphate workings and defence installations, and causing large explosions and fires. Mitchells bombed the I’onape Island airfield. Other bombers and fighters attacked the remaining enemy positions in the Marshalls on Thursday night and in daylight on Friday.
The “New York Times” Pearl Harbour correspondent says that the lone Liberator's sorties was the first attack against the Shimushiri and Keto Islands, only 400 miles from Japan proper and the closest approach yet to Tokio from' the Aleutians. It is regarded as a token raid, indietative of American ability and intention to press steadily inward against Japan from all sides.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 201, 23 May 1944, Page 5
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160DAYLIGHT RAID ON NAURU Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 201, 23 May 1944, Page 5
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