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...desperate effort to throttle Red supply lines and impede their tank and troop movements, Major General Emmett O'Donnell's big B-29s joined Allied fighters and tactical bombers in an "interdiction campaign"-striking enemy communication lines in South Korea. It was a measure of the critical stage of the war in Korea last week, for B-29s were never designed to do the work of tactical aircraft...
Toward week's end, the Red air force cautiously reappeared. Over Taejon, four patrolling U.S. F-80s met four Yak fighters, shot down three; other Yaks tried to intercept U.S. B-29s on their mission to Seoul, giving them, in the words of a U.S. briefing officer, "a pretty good scrap." Airfields previously deserted were again abustle with Red aircraft...
Navy and Air Force lifted some of their World War II equipment out of mothballs. Aircraft companies began stripping plastic covers off old Corsairs, Hellcats, Bearcats, B-26s, B-29s. The Independence class carrier Bataan had been reactivated, modernization of the old (1942) Essex was stepped up to a round-the-clock operation...
...Strategic Air Force (B-36s and B-29s) to carry the atom bomb, which, though not in action, was and still is the U.S.'s main bet. About 65% of all procurement went to the Air Force last year...
...were going to get worse. More airstrips in Korea would enable U.S. jets and Mustangs to give better support for ground troops; Red field positions and supply lines would be chewed up with deadlier regularity. The effects of Rosy O'Donnell's strategic strikes with the B-29s would take longer to hit the Communists at the front, but when they were felt, they would hurt...