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...push on Christmas Day. The attack did not materialize but the U.N. forces did not stand and wait for it: they patrolled vigorously to keep track of enemy movements and positions, and they improved their own positions with minefields, barbed wire, better combat groupings. Allied aircraft, including B-29s, were out in force, chopping at the enemy and his supply lines from the parallel to the Yalu...
...only way U.S. B-29s could bomb the Yalu River bridges without violating the border was by making long bomb runs just inside and parallel to the line running down the center of the 2,500-ft.-wide Yalu. While making such a ten-minute bomb run on Sinuiju, 24 U.S. Superforts at 25,000 ft. were jumped by 16 Russian-made jet fighters-MIG-iss. Attacking in pairs, the Red jets, traveling at better than 600 m.p.h., began their dives high on the Manchurian side of the border, swept across the Yalu just long enough to shoot...
...military targets-warehouses, factories, locomotive sheds and railroad marshaling yards-had been destroyed, and the approaches to one of the bridges knocked out. Later in the week the U.S. Navy knocked out three of the Yalu River bridges, including the one at Sinuiju missed by the B-29s. In all of these actions two U.S. planes were reported lost or damaged...
...Pacific bases, from Pearl Harbor to the projected new base at Camranh Bay in Indo-China. Pearl and Guam are the main bases for repair and service of warships, as well as for staging land-based air. Okinawa, a major base for the Air Force's B-29s, is not now being used by the Navy but is on standby status. So is Kwajalein. Two bases in Japan (Yokosuka and Sasebo) are capable of handling large naval forces, and a twin base in the Philippines (Subic Bay plus nearby Sangley Point) will take small ones...
...first crack at production problems when Chrysler sent him to Chicago to unsnarl red tape entangling the Dodge aircraft engine plant, world's biggest. He did such a good job that he was made plant manager, turned out 18,413 of the motors that powered the B-29s...