Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Superfortress teams had now hit most of Japan's large cities, and were preparing variations on their attack pattern. Tons of British pathfinder bombs had been shipped to the Marianas and would soon permit the 21st Bomber Command to bomb at night with greater precision. U.S. Army officers announced that fleets of 1,000 planes would soon smite Japan. Tokyo warned its medium and small-size cities to expect the worst. The big bombers were not the only planes that struck Japan. Kyushu Island, whence enemy planes attack Okinawa, was worked over for several days by U.S. fighters from...
...TIME May 21st International refers to PWD as "OWI's Psychological Warfare Division." Does TIME not yet know that PWD is a division of Supreme Headquarters just like G1, G2, etc; that it is answerable to General Eisenhower and not to OWI; that it is an Anglo-American organization like all other divisions and sections of Supreme Headquarters; . . . that it is a unique organization in this or any other war, being mixed "British-American, civilian-military, operating at all echelons, from the Chief of Staff's desk to the platoon commander's foxhole; that TIME...
...inviting, if less concentrated, targets. And the same fate was in store for other Japanese cities. As LeMay spoke, his staff and the Japs were both computing the results of the B-29s' first smash at Yokohama-in which 450 planes dropped 3,200 tons of incendiaries. The 21st Bomber Command said 6.9 sq.mi. of the great seaport city was burned out; the Japs said 60,000 homes were destroyed. Next on the B-29s' list was industrial Kobe, which caught another 3,000-ton load of U.S. fire bombs...
...wholesale grocery business, which a few years ago was being rapidly encroached upon by chain stores, this process has been productive. It now supports his apartment overlooking Lake Michigan from the 21st floor of the Drake Tower Apartments - with semicircular modern couches, a glass-enclosed "garden," a dining room lighted from a cylinder under its glass-topped table...
Major General Curtis E. ("Ironpants") LeMay has lately become known as "The Cigar." He usually has one clenched in his teeth (it helps to cover a slight facial paralysis, the result of an old wound), and the boys of his 21st Bomber (B29) Command, in sincerest flattery, have also become cigar puffers. Last week their stogies stuck up at a cocky angle. Their morale and their operational results were soaring...