More American Bombing Attacks on Marshalls

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 52, 4 March 1944, Page 5

More American Bombing Attacks on Marshalls

CHINA AIR FORCE SWEEPS CHINA SEAS Received Friday, 8.50 p.m. WASHINGTON, March 2. Army aircraft continue to bomb enemy-held positions in the Marshalls, says a Pacific Fleet communique. Liberators and Mitchells on Tuesday dropped i nearly 80 tons of bombs on four airfields while Warhawks hit warehouses on one island. Anti-aircraft lire was negligible and none of our planes was • damaged. [ General Chennault’s bombers have ; established a new air front which has j virtually swept Japanese shipping from i the East and South China Seas, says - the Associated Press’s correspondent at ; the headquarters of the Fourteenth Air : Force in China. He adds: “Enemy . cargo ships have been bottled up in i harbours and rivers and forced from port to port along the tedious Chinese ! coastal routes under cover of darkness ; or compelled to travel east of Formosa where they are more exposed to subi marine attack. General Chennault is determined to smasn all ocean shipping within range of his Liberators as well as river traffic on the Yangtse.”