AIR PRESSURE

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 20, 24 July 1945, Page 5

AIR PRESSURE

TARGETS OF ALLIED PLANES

Rec. 9.45 a.m. WASHINGTON, July 23.

Planes of the R.A.A.F. and the 13th, Air Force, in extensive strikes, destroyed or damaged enemy supply installations, motor transport, coastal craft and numerous buildings in northern Borneo, and supported ground opj erations at Balik Papan, says General Mac Arthur's communique.

A'patrol bomber sank an enemy; freighter and barge and strafed aerodrome- installations near Kuching, Bomber and fighter elements and light surface units, continuing the neutralisation of enemy facilities in the East Indies, struck airfields and transport at Celebes, sank two barges, bombed the coastal defences of the Halmaheras, and strafed the enemy waterfront on the Lesser Sundas.

Night patrols bombed enemy installations at Mako in the Pescadores. Long-range search planes destroyed op damaged nine enemy harbour and; coastal craft off the China coast. Daylight patrols attacked railroad installations, rolling stock, and highway bridges in the • Indo-China area, and caused large fires among shipyard facilities containing five enemy freighters at Trengganu, in Malaya. Enemy installations on Ituaba Island, in the South China Sea, wera hit for the fourth consecutive *day. Units of the Netherlands Air Force bombed enemy-occupied villages in north-western New Guinea. Australian bombers supported ground forces in the Wewak and Sepik River areas.

Medium fighter-bombers of the Marine Corps and New Zealand Aitt Forces attacked Rabaul and Kaviteng. A Royal Australian Navy unit bombarded enemy positions on northern Bougainville and Buka.