Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                S voir terrific blows which Itic and won a Fiere the next blow would f fico Fig at administered to Japan its first bombard ment an based a frito secret bases to pfc which Weie plan Ner at the giant bombers plastered japans Iron and works at Yamaha with great Llo acl of sex t super fortresses lost on th6 anti Over the target tie others is Nippy did not ofte of the Nissing pm foes immediately news of Fri Jap that Large scale in naval landings had been Island of Saipan i r in the air Battle air Battle of the a followed the assault on in a Savage air a Chr More than 900 Jap planes were destroy guns of warships and Calmer planes As the enemy Turfey his sunday punch from Dis and Shore As Theosil at Mona and Rota 100 Miles South of losses during the furious fair Battle were not revealed beyond the announcement that one surface a flip received minor and army veterans of uie4 Southwest Pacific Campaign which made up the Landing forces have already captured the Salito heaviest sluggers scored plenty of hits Pacific continued from Page 1 by Thea Jap Fleet which fled on monday night towards the Channel Between to Moba and the Only announced United Sta Tes losses Are 49 Many of which landed in the water at night and from Many pilots were the Admiral revealed that 353 instead of the earlier report of 300 japanese planes were shot Down during a japanese attack on ships on june while two carriers and one battleship received superficial damage not impairing their up and Cabot in civvies Hollywood Bruce Cabot has been discharged from the air transport command after tworan Dahal years of ser and will return to Hollywood on july 2 to resume his screen Ca stars and stripes 1 two extra pages today Issue of your news stars and contains 10 pages for the first an unusually head Volu me of news from the fighting to mention the arrival of the it necessary for us to go up two pages for this weeks is paper mechanical limitations still exist and we mention this just so you wont think that we have permanently in creased the size of your editor Only four hours flying Tiffie from Vand have con it Cfred of Che it is that enemy troops Are opposing american for Ces on Bonin islands hit first Battle against Iny armoured the yanks Des troyed 25 Kip tanks in a night in a Jap attempt to bring reinforcements into the 13 enemy troop Laden barges were flanking the Marianas invasion an american Carrier task Force threw another heavy punch at three enemy bases in the Bonin and Volcano 500 Miles to the in this bold task Force 47 Jap planes were two ships sunk and ten others a heavy losses inflicted on the enemy with artame i Tanioss of Only four planes and in the Southwest yank supported by have captured Bor Okoe and Sori do air domes on Biak off the coast of Jap defences shattered Jap strongholds within and with out their perimeter of defense were blazing under the heaviest attacks in Truk has been pounded daily by Large formations of liberators based in the admiralty is tons bombs were spilled on Palau Island in an at tack during which 28 of 50 Jap interceptor planes were blasted from the the North Western tip of dutch new by heavy bomber for Ces which sunk five cargo vessels and damaged eight others As Well As destroying More than 50 planes m the air and on the Palau and other Jap Island bases were also heavily a delayed dispatch revealed that Matsuwa japans key naval and air ferry base in the Kun was subjected to the heaviest naval bombardment Over delivered the a Strong american task Force steamed in under the enemy coast batteries through a dense fog Dawn and shelled the enemy installations before Jap guns could open up or their planes take to the the strike was the deep est penetration yet made in Force into Jap Waters As Matsuwa is Only 400 Miles from the thickly populated Jap Island of Nevada pulls out after aiding ref own the battleship grounded at i Earl Harbor but reconditioned for duty in the sep assault on euro turned its Back from the Sce nes of destruction it had wrought Hong intr out because the army it helped ashore almost a fortnight ago now has grown from the Shel ter of its flaming an american correspondent describing How the Nevada bowed out in glory declared that the men who saw what she did will always what these men he said was the Nevada blanketed in sheets of her own steel tear ing holes in hitlers fortress so mar hat the anus could drive tanks while wreathed in her own Amber she uprooted gun scattered Pill smashed tank and troop the men on the Nevada stood at their posts As loner As 79 hours in in six dues the Battle ship hurled pounds of steel explosives into on each of its targets fire control parties ashore fire of column of  across the Skyline in this photo Mark the Imperial Iron and steel works at Yawata which were by american in the spectacular raid on the Jap reports indicate that the damage has resulted in a 20 per cent reduction the Island empires steel see Bah Field in newsman describes thrill of raid on japanese steel works by Thoburn Wiant american War correspondent aboard a super fortress Over delayed Are Only 10 minutes from weve been Calm and intent on reaching now our hearts Are pounding mostly from Antici pation of the big moment we have this off Parks the beginning of a military plan to hit the japanese again and again where it hurts we Are in the forefront of scores of super fortresses concentrating tonight on japans biggest steel and Coke one fifth of Jap ans entire steel output i produced this super fortress is longer than a Pullman railway car Ries As much gasoline As a railway tank and each of Ite four engines is More powerful than a to by the time we rot will have established the worlds record for Long distance to Are supremely but now we Are Only five minutes from the Imperial Iron and steel works and searchlights Are frantically sweeping the there Are no signs of enemy at least one of the Superior tresses heat us to the target be cause we can see several bomb the target now is Only seconds away but those seconds Are like hours the sky is filled with searchlights and Tackack like no fourth of july we Ever there Thev go into their dam Ned steel veils the bomb our Friant plane relieved of its explosive Load noses we look flames Are shooting at least feet from two huge several smaller fires Are blazing up Japan Tokio Manila philippine As army super fortresses were Hying through China skies to carry out the first bombing raid by land based bombers on the Jap Homeland at Yamaha a Strong Carrier task Foice the Benin islands Only four flying hours from there raids were a prelude to a full scale invasion of Saipan Island 3 in Hie Navy Abandons plans to rebuild Normandy new York the former Lux Ury liner which was raised from the Hudson River mud at a Cost of nearly will not be rebuilt for the the shortages of manpower have for ced cancellation of the navys plans to put the Normandy Back in service As a troop she burned and capsized at her pier in new York in february stocks soar new up securities and commodities at the new York Stock Exchange have boomed on the favourable War news with stocks reach in the Best general level in More than four and a half b29 packs most powerful Wallop of All bombers Washington Marshall has issued a state ment detailing the worldwide potential hits of the super fortress and hailing it a highly complicated Piui must deadly air plane of Dejah ering the heaviest known with air Marshall said that me Power of the new bombers u great its use would not be confined to any single theater but that it would operate with the bomber command under the Cen trial control of the joint chiefs of with Henry Arnold directing super fortress tons throughout the the planes will be treated As a major task Force in the same Man Ner As the naval task forces Are directed against objectives the we permitted publication of a number of facts concerning the b29 which has a Wing spread of slightly Over 140 feet and a length of 98 it is All Metal and has four 18cylinder radial manufacturers said that the super fortress carries the greatest Load farther and higher than any other air plane in the and that its Speed compares favourably with the latest and fastest of the worlds britishers says incited Jap attack on Pearl Harbor i startled guests at an american chamber f Omi Merce luncheon in Lon Don heard British production minister Oliver member Britain inner War declare during his speech on Lem Llease that Japan had been provoked into attacking the americans at Pearl Lyttelton stated it is Novelty on history to say that America was forced into the everyone knows where american sympathies it is incorrect to say that America was Ever truly Neutral even before Ameri Ca came into the War on an All out fighting 24th sub lost Washington the sub Marine 1475ton Craft which carried a Crew of about is missing in action and presumed the Navy announced without further the Gray Back was the 24th american submersible Craft lost in this Pursuit and fighter Wallace in China Eijiu nuking Henry Wallace arrived Here this week from Russia on tour As president Roosevelt personal representative