SIX ENEMY WARSHIPS
HIT IN KURE RAID
MAJOR UNITS SUFFER
LONDON, July 24
Admiral Nimitz, giving a preliminary report of the results of the attack by American and British carrier planes on the Japanese naval base of Kure, says that six Japanese warships were damaged: Two'battleships, an aircraftcarrier, and three cruisers.
• The two battleships were 29,000----tonners of the Is class. The 8500-ton heavy -cruiser, Tone, and a light cruiser were left badly burning.
.American planes, destroyed 19 enemy aircraft while British planes destroyed 12 others and damaged . another 13. British aircraft also damaged a Japanese escort-carrier off Shikoku, as well as other smaller vessels.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 21, 25 July 1945, Page 8
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104SIX ENEMY WARSHIPS Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 21, 25 July 1945, Page 8
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