EFFECTIVE SUPPORT
GIVEN BY UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT
TO CHINESE IN YANGTSE AREA.
JAPANESE BASES DAMAGED & SHIPS SUNK.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 10.30 a.m.) CHUNGKING. June 23.
Mitchells and Warhawks supported Chinese troops in the Tungting Lake area on Monday by heavily bombing and strafing three Japanese bases and shipping,” says a communique issued from General Stilwell’s headquarters. “Huge fires were left burning and many direct hits were scored among warehouses in Hwajung. Extensive damage was done to supply depots and casualties were inflicted on troop concentrations at Shihihow. Gunboats and a river tug near Takingyi were sunk and two steamers are believed to have been sunk.”
A Chinese communique, reporting on the attack against Shihihow, said six Japanese motor launches were sunk and many casualties inflicted. The Chinese also report that a Japanese thrust in the Kinhwa sector was repulsed vzith a loss of 200 men.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1943, Page 4
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