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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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In July, combined US carrier and land-based plane attacks destroyed or damaged at least 1,546 Japanese ships and over 1,300 warplanes in home waters, per official accounts. Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet accounted for 1,035 vessels and 1,278 aircraft. Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur's forces added more losses. Reported from Guam on Aug. 1.
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By MORRIS LANDSBERG
GUAM, Aug. 1--(AP) Combined carrier and landbased plane attacks have cost Japan, by conservative official accounts, at least 1,546 ships and small craft sunk or damaged in her home waters in July and more than thirteen hundred warplanes destroyed or wrecked-but that is just the beginning.
Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet, carrier planes, including some two hundred fifty British aircraft alone destroyed or damaged 1,035 Japanese ships and small craft in twenty-one days of almost ceaseless assaults with torpedoes, bombs, rockets and fifty calibre bullets.
They accounted for one thousand two hundred seventy-eight aircraft, most of which was caught on the ground. Halsey's units have reduced the remnants of the Japanese fleet to a shambles 99 warships have been sunk or damaged, including three disclosed today by land-based aircraft.
Admiral Nimitz' Command sank another 85 vessels, mostly freighters and cargo ships and damaged one hundred seventy-six destroyed or damaged fifty-three Japanese planes.
An Associated Press tabulation showed the Far East Airforces have immobilized two hundred fifty Japanese ships or small craft totaling two hundred fifty thousand tons after they began operations July. General MacArthur's command coming from Okinawa bases early in the month said the totals include many barges, luggers and other small craft, but exclude many.
The communique reports of "several" or "a number of" vessels sunk or damaged also exclude the number of Japanese planes wrecked by B-29s or accompanying Mustangs.
The figures which are not available for July are just the pre-invasion beginning of the devastation to be wrought on Japan, who has been warned by nearly every Pacific commander.
Radio Tokyo said Admiral Halsey's fleet still prowled off Honshu island, where it already has spent twenty-two unchallenged days.
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In July
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at least 1,546 ships and small craft sunk or damaged; more than thirteen hundred warplanes destroyed or wrecked; halsey's fleet: 1,035 ships, 1,278 aircraft, 99 warships; nimitz: 85 vessels sunk, 176 damaged, 53 planes; far east air forces: 250 ships immobilized totaling 250,000 tons
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Combined carrier and landbased plane attacks cost Japan ships and planes in home waters. Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet, including 250 British aircraft, destroyed or damaged 1,035 ships and 1,278 aircraft in 21 days of assaults. Most aircraft caught on ground. Reduced Japanese fleet to shambles. Admiral Nimitz' command sank 85 vessels, damaged 176, destroyed or damaged 53 planes. Far East Air Forces immobilized 250 ships from July operations from Okinawa. Totals include small craft but exclude some reports and B-29/Mustang wrecks. Figures are pre-invasion beginning. Halsey's fleet off Honshu for 22 days.