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...Seventy-five B-29s, the complement of the Fifteenth Air Force's 22nd and 92nd Bomber Wings, left California and Washington last week to join the Far East Bomber Command. The first contingent of 30 planes passed through Honolulu on July...
...29s were bombing Pyongyang, the Red capital, and other objectives north of the 38th parallel. U.S., British and Australian naval forces, including carriers and cruisers, were committed to action in the Korean theater; U.S. warships shelled shore installations at the Red-seized port of Inchon. Douglas MacArthur ordered the 24th Division, equipped with tanks and artillery, to Korea by sea. One battalion of the 24th was flown to Pusan and shipped to the Kum River front by rail. Major General William F. Dean, the 24th's commander, was appointed commanding general of all U.S. forces in Korea, with Church...
...extra, increased its sales by 35,000 copies for the week. (The Journal's copy desk also invented a more convenient headline word to describe the North Korean Communists: KO-REDS.) Though newspapers quickly took on their old wartime look with Page One photos of General MacArthur, B-29s and tanks, and the first casualty lists, most of the U.S. press followed Harry Truman's advice: "Don't make it alarmist...
...crude bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rush jobs intended to be carried in a B29. There was little reason to keep their weight down, since the B-29s of the time could carry 20,000 lbs. from Saipan to the target. Long after Nagasaki, the weight of the first bombs leaked out. It was about...
...Russians have been able to keep the Western powers guessing about the number of "TU-29s" (the Russian copy of the U.S. 6-29) based at these installations. Many Western observers think that if the TU-29s are present at all, their numbers are probably small-for the time being, anyway. Meanwhile, work on the new airfields is being pushed at top speed. The target date for the completion of at least one long runway and all basic installations had been...