Show rs perfo pan Nip OccUpied pied Sumatra WASHINGTON Aug 10 INS INS 29 B 29 based in China struck two separate and devastating blows at Japanese positions positions bombing bombing Nagasaki on the Japanese mainland i island land and striking the vicinity of on Japanese occupied Sumatra S The B 29 29 raids were the third and fourth missions carried I out b by the air force based somewhere in western China The text of the war department issued in in I Washington follows of the bomb bomber r command today Aug 10 struck in two directions against strategic Japanese targets One medium sized force went for the third time timeto to the Japanese mainland island of Kyushu and attacked industrial targets in Nagasaki Another medium sized force attacked strategic strategic strategic stra stra- targets in the vicinity of on the Japanese occupied occupied occupied pied island iland of Sumatra The uThe attack against Sumatra was carried out from bases of the southeast Asia command The uThe attack ag against Nagasaki was delivered from bases in China A will be issued on these operations as soon as he the result can be bl evaluated |