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.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1943, Page 4
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