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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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US Eleventh Air Force aircraft conducted sweeps off the Japanese Kurile Islands on Sunday and Monday, sinking three small cargo ships, damaging others, and bombing airfields on Paramushiro and Shumshu. One B-24 was shot down.
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By OLEN CLEMENTS
(Associated Press War Correspondent)
ELEVENTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, ALEUTIANS, June 19. -(Delayed) - Sweeps off the Japanese Kurile Islands by Eleventh Air Force Liberators and Mitchells Sunday and Monday sank three small cargo ships, left another in flames and damaged three others.
Two B-24s broke off from a formation bombing Suribachi Airfield, Paramushiro, and Minami Cape, Shumshu, Sunday, when they sighted three small ships off Paramushiro and went in at 200 feet to sink two of them. One Liberator was shot down.
The following day, a Mitchell flight located four cargo vessels off Paramushiro and sank one, left another burning and severely damaged the remaining two.
Fleet Air Wing four Harpoons bombed shipping off Naga Cape in Paramushiro Strait on Monday by instruments. Results were not observed. The same day another flight of Navy Harpoons bombed Suribachi Airfield on Paramushiro, also with unobserved results.
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Japanese Kurile Islands
Event Date
Sunday And Monday Prior To June 19
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sank three small cargo ships, left one in flames, damaged three others; one b-24 liberator shot down
Event Details
Eleventh Air Force Liberators and Mitchells conducted sweeps off the Japanese Kurile Islands, sinking ships off Paramushiro and bombing Suribachi Airfield on Paramushiro and Minami Cape on Shumshu on Sunday. On Monday, Mitchells attacked cargo vessels off Paramushiro, and Fleet Air Wing Four Harpoons bombed shipping off Naga Cape and Suribachi Airfield, with some results unobserved.