Superforts Bomb Japan by Leonard Milliman
Newspaper report credits Leonard Milliman with dispatching a superior air raid over Japan using Superforts. Details describe mission scope, target areas, and air force unit involved.
19 Jan 1945
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1945
Page
1
Newspaper report credits Leonard Milliman with dispatching a superior air raid over Japan using Superforts. Details describe mission scope, target areas, and air force unit involved.
Associated Press reports 80 B 29s based in the Marianas bomb Kobe Osaka industrial complex, with large destruction of the Kawasaki plant and other targets in Formosa and the China coast. Tokyo acknowledged some damage. Urdaneta and Lingayen Gulf advances tighten control of northern Luzon as ground battles wage across Manila routes.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a brief item about meters and a foe named Meters Co. No clear events, dates, or persons beyond the entities.
Allied forces press gains as Patton's Third Army advances beyond the Sure River toward the Our River boundary near Trier amid heavy Siegfried Line fire. British troops reach two miles inside Germany near the Maas Roer corridor while Seventh Army stalls near Strasbourg and Herrlisheim.
Supreme Allied Headquarters Paris reports German losses of 120000 from December 12 to January 11 as their offensive to split the Allied front unfolds. Allied casualties reached 55421 in the same period, with 18416 taken prisoner, most from the American forces.
London on January 19 the House of Commons rejected by 340 to 7 an attempt to censure Prime Minister Churchill’s interventionist policy in liberated lands. The report notes minimal context and references John Maynard Lor and Co. as sources within the damaged OCR text.
New Bedford Massachusetts January 19 Four more years of war with Japan were predicted by Admiral William D. Leahy? no, by Admiral Harry F. Yarnell who spoke at his Newport Rhode Island home. He warned casualties could reach between 1 0 0 0 and 2 000 000 and outlined the Pacific war plan and the eventual strategy to wear Japan down.
Washington announces rationing of fats and oils to support the war effort. Households must register and await guidance as retail sales of shortening and cooking oils are restricted under the OPA in the weekly directive.
Weather bulletin notes cloudy conditions and shifting temperatures through the weekend. Winds run 23 to 30 mph in Texas with cooler temps arriving Saturday night. New Mexico shows partly cloudy skies with strong winds and a colder trend into Sunday night.
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