Keywords: Lot-5279-6: Air Raids at Formosa, 11 October 1944. From original caption, “A towering cloud of smoke entirely conceals a Japanese ship, possibly Sumiei Maru, off Formosa after a bomb-hit by a U.S. Navy plane. Attacks on Formosa were part of an assault on Japanese inner-defense bastions, including the Ryukyu Islands; Luzon, in the Northern Philippines, and the Pescadores. The assaults continued from October 9-15, destroying 590 to 595 enemy planes and sinking 73 ships.” U.S. Navy Photograph.(2015/10/30) Lot-5279-6: Air Raids at Formosa, 11 October 1944. From original caption, “A towering cloud of smoke entirely conceals a Japanese ship, possibly Sumiei Maru, off Formosa after a bomb-hit by a U.S. Navy plane. Attacks on Formosa were part of an assault on Japanese inner-defense bastions, including the Ryukyu Islands; Luzon, in the Northern Philippines, and the Pescadores. The assaults continued from October 9-15, destroying 590 to 595 enemy planes and sinking 73 ships.” U.S. Navy Photograph.(2015/10/30) |