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j 1,200 Carrier ; Planes Attack Nippon TargetsBy RICHARD W. JOHNSON !WITH -ADM. HALSEY'S,3RD FLEET, OFF JAPAN, Aug. (U.R)— The Japanese lashed out like a dying scorpion this afternoon and for the first i time since Admiral Halsey’s i Third Fleet invaded homeland ! waters early in July, the enemy attempted a kamikaze attack ] against us-More than 80 Superfortresses ( from the Mariana? attacked the Nippon oil refinery and storage tank farm at Amagaski near Osaka early today.Amagasaki already had been 11 per cent destroyed in a raid July 20, and 36 per cent had been ‘•removed.” The Japanese apparently had taken away part of the city to escape aerial destruction.One of the Japanese suicide planes came down like a bullet through the sunshine-filtered or-
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San Mateo, California, US
Thu, Aug 09, 1945
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