Very heavy raid made on Tokyo
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON (UP) – A fleet of Superfortresses “in very great strength” dropped incendiary bombs upon military and industrial targets in Tokyo today, the War Department announced.
GUAM (UP) – The Japs were revealed today to have Jost 118 planes in two desperate suicidal attacks against U.S. forces in the Okinawa area yesterday.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz disclosed that one U.S. destroyer was sunk in the action and several other ships damaged, although the latter continued in operation.
A Tokyo broadcast admitted the loss of only two Jap planes and claimed that the suicide forces had sunk or damaged 11 American vessels in the raids yesterday.
Tokyo said the attacks were directed against eight separate groups of U.S. warships stretched 100 miles off the eastern coast of Okinawa. The enemy report claimed the entire American naval force included at least eight aircraft carriers and seven battleships.
On Okinawa, the stalemated ground campaign north of the capital of Naha went into its fifth day today. Adm. Nimitz disclosed the identity of four more divisions fighting on Okinawa, making a total of five known to be taking part in the campaign. They were the 27th and 96th Infantry Divisions and the 1st and 6th Marine Divisions.