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B-25 Crashes in Fog (Adams) – 2-4
Where Bomber Crashed into Empire State Building (page 1 photo) – 2
Photo-Diagram of the Plane Crash – 3
Catholic War Relief Office is Chief Victim of Tragedy (Resner) – 5
Spellman Invokes God’s Blessings on Dead; ‘Soul Weeps’ for the Sorrowing Relatives – 5
Rescue and First Aid Workers on the Scene of the Disaster (photos) – 6-7
Red Cross and Hospital Groups Speed to Aid of Victims, Rescuers – 7
Crash Described by Eyewitnesses (Horne) – 8
Pilot and Crew Member Killed in Crash (photos) – 9
List of Crash Victims – 9
La Guardia Field Cleared Bomber – 9
Foes are Crushed (Reston) – 10-11
Roll-Call in the Senate on World Charter Vote – 11
War News Summarized – 11
Crippled Warships of Japanese Navy Smashed by Fliers (O’Malley) – 12
B-29’s Fire 6 Cities in Promised Blows – 13-14
Japanese Suffer Disaster in Burma – 14
Kweilin and Three Airfields Seized; Chinese Also Gain in Other Areas – 15-16
Fleet Press Plans Work Out Badly (Jones) – 16
A Flat-Top That the Japanese Tried to Sink but Couldn’t (photo) – 17
B-32 Bombers Hit from Luzon Bases (by James E. Hutcheson, first-time contributor and John Stuart) – 17-18
The B-32: The U.S. Army Air Forces’ Newest Superbomber (photo) – 17
British to Show German Motion Pictures in Zone Despite Delay in American Area (by Gladwin Hill) – 18
Goering’s Illness Held No Trial Bar – 19
A Kiss for a Fighting General (photo) – 19
The Veteran (by Charles Hurd) – 21
Negro Publishers Plan News Service – 21
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 22
The Weather in the Nation – 23

The News of the Week in Review
The Momentous Changes of Five Months (photos) – 24
Fifteen News Questions – 25
“Make Way”: Mr. Low’s Comment on Britain’s Election (cartoon) – 26
British Vote Reflects Deep-Seated Forces(by Clifton Daniel) – 27-28
“Proof of the Victory” (cartoon) – 28
Strategic Islands the Rule the Pacific (map) – 29
Divided Command Seen as a Pacific Problem (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 30
“Dilemma in Tokyo” (cartoon) – 31
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 31
Vital Issues Face the Big Three (by Raymond Daniell) – 32

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/6/29.htm

July 29th, 1945 (SUNDAY)

EUROPE: The British Eighth Army is disbanded.

JAPAN: US Far East Air Force (FEAF)]:

P-47s from Ie Shima and B-24s, B-25s, and A-26 Invaders from Okinawa pound targets in the Japanese Home Islands;

70+ B-24s pound shipping at Kure, 41 B-24s hit a factory and storage area northwest of Aburatsu, shipping and engine works in Nagasaki and vicinity, and the towns of Nobeoka, Kyushu and Oita;

B-25s hit Kagoshima, Kyushu, Kibana, a bridge, barracks and other buildings at Miyazaki, warehouses, a lighthouse, and navigation light at Tozaki-hana, and bomb Tokuno Shima;

A-26s pound the naval base and engine works at Nagasaki;

numerous P-47s hit the harbor at Kure, shipping and seaplane station at Ibusuki, railroad station, docks, and town area of Makurazaki, Chiran and Izumi Airfields, and shipping at Kagoshima Bay.

P-51s hit numerous targets of opportunity on the southern coast of Korea and on the southern part of Kyushu, where shipping, railroads, and Omura, Kyushu and Sashiki factories are also attacked.

- Also during the day, American and British carrier-based aircraft attack airfields and naval targets in the Inland Sea sinking a destroyer and 12 merchant vessels. USN Task Group 34.8.1 consisting of 3 battleships (SOUTH DAKOTA, INDIANA and MASSACHUSETTS), 4 heavy cruisers (CHICAGO, QUINCY, BOSTON and SAINT PAUL) and 10 destroyers bombards facilities on Honshu. The British battleship HMS King George V and 3 destroyers join in the bombardment.

- During the night of 29/30 July, the US Twentieth Air Force flies Mission 304; 24 B-29s mine Shimonoseki Strait and the waters at Fukuoka, Karatsu, and Najin; 2 others mine alternate targets.

509BG aircraft carry out ‘Pumpkin Missions’ to practice bomb runs. [See chart at linked site - HJS.]

Ops. Miss. Date Aircraft Cdr. Crew Bombing Target Lat Long Result
30 11 29/07/45 44-27297 Bock C-13 Secondary Visual Nakajima A/c Engines, Tokyo Poor
30 10 29/07/45 44-27298 Taylor A-1 Primary Visual Nitrogen Fertilzer Plant, Ube Poor
30 12 29/07/45 44-27301 Eatherly C-11 Secondary Visual Naval Base at Maizuru Excellent
30 10 29/07/45 44-27302 McKnight B-8 Primary Visual Industrial Soda Co., Ube Excellent
30 10 29/07/45 44-27303 Wilson B-6 Primary Visual Nippon Oil, Ube Poor
30 12 29/07/45 44-27304 Smith A-5 Secondary Visual Oil Refinery, Wakayama Unobserved
30 11 29/07/45 44-27353 Lewis B-9 Primary Visual Koriyama Marshalling Yards Excellent
30 11 29/07/45 44-86291 Ray C-14 Primary Visual Light Industry, Koriyama Poor

(David Hebditch)

CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Nanoonse (ex HMCS Nootka) paid off.

U.S.A.: Destroyer USS William W Wood launched.