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More important - particularly to the Big Three meeting in Potsdam - was the weight of high explosives being dumped on Japanese targets. Halsey roamed ostentatiously up & down the Emperor's coastline in the foul weather which seems to attach itself to the Third Fleet. The B-29s from the Marianas struck two great blows, firing four cities each time...
...their biggest strike to date, more than 600 Superforts took off in a single flight. Two announcements last week gave the Japs even more to worry about: 1) Lieut. General "Jimmy" Doolittle's Eighth Air Force B-29s were due on Okinawa in mid-August; 2) R.A.F. Air Vice Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd had been in Guam, presumably intent on fulfilling Winston Churchill's promise to send British land-based planes into...
...jigsaw puzzle still left out some stray pieces: the Army's Seventh Fighter Command, a part of the Seventh Air Force, is based mostly on Iwo Jima and under Navy command. It escorts not MacArthur's nor Nimitz' planes over Japan, but Spaatz's B-29s...
...29s still carried the big load. By the end of the first week in July, the Twentieth Air Force had burned out more than 126 square miles of 25 Jap cities...
Fire fell on Kagoshima in the night, as suddenly as an earthquake, but with far greater violence. Peacefully, Kagoshima's 200,000 Japanese citizens had gone to bed, leaving the city and naval anchorage brightly lighted. Then, at low level, the B-29s roared in. Two searchlights aimlessly fingered the sky and quickly paled into nothing as almost 1,000 tons of incendiary bombs turned the city into a flaming caldron. There was only one dark spot in the glowing mass: a baseball park...