Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

HEAVY RAID

ON JAPANESE BASE AT HANKOW MADE BY AMERICAN bombers AT LEAST 39 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN. ANOTHER 13 PROBABLY DESTROYED. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) CHUNGKING, August 23. Liberators, Mitchells and fighters which took part in a raid on Hankow cn Saturday, destroyed 39 planes in the air, probably destroyed 13 more, and damaged two in a series of battles, says an Associated Press cf America correspondent at the United States headquarters in China. Liberators alone shot down 35 Zeros, probably destroyed 9 and damaged two. when they were attacked by about a fifth of the Japanese fighters in Central China. They made a run up the west bank of the Yangtse, strewing heavy explosives along a four-mile warehouse area. Despite Japanese interference, the Liberators laid their bombs among big supply installations in “the Chicago of China,” from which the Japanese equip their forces in the Central and Upper Yangtse areas. About 45 minutes after the Liberators struck, Mitchells attacked the Hankow aerodrome and warehouses with fragmentation bombs, and are believed to have destroyed a number of planes on the ground. Thirty large fires were later observed burning fiercely in Hankow.

Twenty-seven Japanese bombers, with a small fighter escort, appeared over Chungking today, but Chinese fighters and anti-aircraft batteries prevented the raiders bombing the city. Bombs fell in the suburbs. Simultaneously, 27 bombers raided Wanshien, 150 miles further east. The last preceding raid on Chungking was on August. 31. 1941 Chungking’s 800,000 population calmly took refuge in dugouts, sirens having given nearly two hours’ warning.

Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430824.2.48

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1943, Page 4

Word count
Tapeke kupu
261

HEAVY RAID Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1943, Page 4

HEAVY RAID Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1943, Page 4

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert