| Show fire four More tiles In Japan Feeble ResiStance Meets Y Yanks Onks I espite Dy By W 1 MURLIN SPENCER GUAM Aug Au 6 UP Four UP-Four Four more Japanese cities were left in a ama amass amass ma mass B of flames by tr tresses Mo Monday dIlY and their destruction destruction destruction tion appeared certain returning crewmen reported Waves of B 29 dropped tons ton IS of incendiaries on the industrial cities of Nishi Nishi- and Saga and demolition bombs on the coal liquefaction company at at- Ube Uhe One failed to return Pilots J reported Japanese opposition opposition was light although Capt Lawrence ce Bird rd Mapleton l Utah reported seeing a Japanese jet fighter plane over At tt first I I. thought it was a flare or ball ban of ot fire It came to within feet of our B 29 B he ho said Reporting on the results of ot the heavy raid on Saga on Kyushu Second Lt Gordon P. P Marchal Mar of Sacramento Cal Cat said Bald I fir could see s c lines of fire on the ground and nd believe me me the whole thing was definitely ly 1 More lore Opposition Over however one pilot t reported seeing g more more flak more fighters and n l more searchlights searchlights search search- lights than In recent forays over Japan Fires could be seen een miles at sea Once again an all but helpless Japan Japan forewarned forewarned that the big bombers were coming on a mission mis mis- don sion of death was death was unable to offer oer effective resistance while the industrIal industrial industrial in in- areas of ot and Saga and the Ube C Coal al L Liquefaction Co burned and fell feU apart from tram tons tona of ot incendiary and high explosive explosive explosive ex ex- ex- ex plosive bombs bomb dropped by a fleet of ot Super Sunday air raid sirens screamed d throughout Tokyo in a a. warning that P 51 Mustangs had return returned returned re re- re- re reI I turn turned d to strike terror with rockets rockets rockets rock rock- ets and machine guns against anything anything anything any any- thing they could find in the Tokyo area Radio Tokyo said Mustangs carried the assault into the daylight daylight day day- light today with an attack on the Tokyo Toko area A single BIngle Japanese fighter See Page 2 Column 0 Ii S r A o 0 F J JAPAN A P Tokyo JAPAN Power of or the universe er e was unleashed an- an leashed against Hiroshima Four Jap Cities Cites Fired In Latest Raid Roid Continued from Page rage One watched them come yesterday and arul then fled from the skies klu The B in two raids Aug 2 and Monday have sown I tons ona of ot dr dreaded fire and demolition demoli tion bombs on Japanese cities clUe In I warnings to the tho people of DC Japan to surrender unconditionally They have burned bunted out approximately approximately square miles of ot war war- producing cities clUes since the first fire tire raid on Tok Tokyo o March 3 While the newest series of Incendiary in incendiary incendiary in- in raids always has hu been preceded by warnings to civilians to o flee to s. s safety ety their effectiveness effective e ness neBS was waa told bluntly in a single singie sentence in General Spaatz's com corn which reporting on the record raid Aug 2 2 said ald First photographs available on results of ot the B- B B 29 9 strike In the early hours of ot Aug 2 show that the h industrial du tr A. A ar area of Toyama was totally totany Toyama with a a. population of f was the third largest city on Honshu fronting the Japan sea and had th the empires empire's largest aluminum aluminum alu alu- minum plant The Tha Japanese radio acknowledged acknowledged edged the attacks as 83 announced by the United Sta States strategic air forces force headquarters at Guam and Added that B 3 also bombed the Honshu cities clUes of Osaka I and Tokyo admitted suffered suffered suf ut a considerable los loss loz It II claimed eight elgh B were shot down Later Monday Tokyo radio reported reported reported re re- re- re ported a a. small force of raided Hiroshima about 20 miles northwest of Kure on Honshu dropping both incendiaries and explosive ex- ex plosive bombs Tokyo radio also reported ed ex- ex mine sowing operations b by J in Wakasa bay off ort the west coast of Honshu in tn the sea between the Inland sea and Osaka saka bay and in tho the Sea of Japan The tremendous B 29 blow in which one ona of ot the based Marianas-based air force planes was waa lost lost was described by headquarters as 85 merely a s. normal I effort for the constantly growing Towing forces Returning crewmen said they set let towering fires in the tho predawn darkness in the tho clU citi cities of and Saga both of ot which h had hod d re- re delved their warning notices only yesterday and Ml cage kage and arid both of ot which were w warned last Tuesday of ot Impending im impending lin- lin pending destruction Gen MacArthur announced that j jon on Saturday a score of his im medium bombers rode over k shu ahu on on- the wings wing of a phoon and set met great Ires in in n an alcohol and bee cr producing city after a tw S layoff because of ot bad weather Japanese offered no a 1 gr ground grund und opposition On Sund Sunday Y search ply fleet air wings wings' 1 2 and i ismall 18 small cargo ship south mouth of sank a ton 2000 freighter smaller vessel off oft Shantung lace China bombed a a. Ugh and weather station B Shanghai and also went do dow where they destroyed a to I carrying launch I. I Capt Lawrence Bird t a tate ate ato atoot of ot high school the son of ot Mrs Myrtle Bir BIrd picton He Ho entered the l 1941 U through the Utah ash nati guard and transferred to t th thair air forces In April 1942 19 He I commissioned in April 19 |
