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...Tiny, hard-won Iwo, for weeks a haven for B-29s in trouble on their way home, was now being used as a filling station on the way north from the Marianas to Japan. Result: B-29s stopping at Iwo to take on fuel stepped up their explosives load to a maximum of ten tons...
...29s had a new rival. Revealed in action (in the Philippines) for the first time was the four-engined B32, Consolidated Vultee's bid for V.L.R. (Very Long Range) recognition. Under wraps in the Pacific since May, the B-32 is a little smaller than the Superfortress but is a competitor in speed, range and bomb load. The new bomber is also simpler: on the off-chance that the B-29's pressurized cabin and elaborate fire-control system might not work, the Air Forces deliberately instructed the B-32 designers to omit extras, come up with...
That breeze wafted a remarkable communication to the Japs. In leaflets dropped on Japan, rough, tough Major General Curtis E. LeMay listed eleven cities to be bombed by his B-29s. Then he hit six of the targets. Said LeMay, explaining this propaganda blow: "We feel that if we can convince enough of them that they have nothing to look forward to but total destruction, we may shorten the war. . . . We are telling them where we are going to hit and they can't do anything about...
Deadpan, 38-year-old Major General Curtis E. ("The Cigar") LeMay, responsible for the B-29s' hugely successful low-level fire raids, had to give up his B-29 command for a new - and bigger - job last week. He became chief of staff to General Carl Spaatz, commander of strategic air forces in the Pacific. LeMay's beloved Twentieth Air Force got a new commander. The new man : smooth, handsome Nathan Farragut ("The Champ") Twining, 48, back in the Pacific (where he was once lost at sea for six days) after a distinguished job of long-range bombardment...
...Developed. When the carriers and B-29s started striking at Japan, air-sea rescue became even more hazardous- and more necessary. In the early days of flying from the Marianas to Japan, many B-29 crews were lost which might otherwise have been saved: the PBYs lacked the range, the B-29s could not remain in the danger area long enough...