BOMBS ON JAPAN

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 22, 26 July 1945, Page 7

BOMBS ON JAPAN

MOUNTING WEIGHT

BLITZ ON REICH EQUALLED

NEW YORK, July 25. 1 Tlie Arlny Air Forces have already ! dropped on Japan approximately the tonnage which-the combined British _. and American air forces dropped on Germany, and by the spring Japan i will be receiving far more punishment ' from Super-Fortresses than Germany ever took. This has been disclosed by Lieutenant-General Ira Eaker, Commander of the General Army Air Forces. :

The British and American bombers dropped 185,000 tons a month on Germany General declared that the lessons of the European war were proving beneficial in the Pacific. "Guesswork'has been eliminated; we. know what we have got to go after, he General Eaker added that daylight precision bombing had been abandoned in favour of night area incendiary attacks because of the weather, the flight distances and the peculiar structure of Japan's war industry, which relied on factories in private homes.

Furthermore, technique had changed so radically in the last months of the European war that new developments enabled accurate blind bombing.

' General Eaker expressed the opinion that the Japanese air force, though crippled and lacking petrol, was holding back a considerable reserve to repel an invasion.