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...command car, grinning and waving his thin brown hand, General Hodges rode through Atlanta's cheering streets. With him in the parade of cars rode eight other generals, 19 officers of lesser rank, 22 enlisted men, most of them Georgia boys, all grinning and gaping at the B-29s sweeping overhead (B-29s are a novelty to veterans of Europe...
Already bombed dozens of times, Tokyo ate bitterness and outrage last week as never before. In two attacks within 48 hours more than 1,000 B-29s sent fire crackling through the heart of the world's third largest city. And sacrilege upon sacrilege, Radio Tokyo gasped that "the honorable teahouse in the honorable garden of the Imperial Palace . . . and the honorable grounds of the Akasaka detached palace* were destroyed...
...clear moonlight of Thursday, pathfinder B-29s woke Tokyo up with 100-lb. oil bombs to mark the first target-Shinagawa, in the city's southeastern outskirts. Behind them thundered more than 550 bombers, the greatest force of B-29s yet used, with 4,500 tons of incendiaries. Almost two hours later, when the planes were gone, an estimated 3.2 square miles of Shinagawa, packed with freight yards, airplane-parts factories and war plants, were a raging blaze. Remarked one U.S. officer: "[It is] the most vulnerable combination of productivity, congestion and inflammability to be found anywhere in Japan...
...third largest city and major aircraft production center. Two raids by more than 500 bombers each burned out nearly one-fourth of the city, hit the Mitsubishi Aircraft works (world's largest in area) and some 30 other military targets. At week's end B-29s turned on Hamamatsu, 60 miles southeast of Nagoya, to bomb more factories...
Next day, LeMay relaxed somewhat. sending a smaller force (100 to 150 B-29s) to bomb the Kawanishi aircraft plant near Kobe, biggest producer of Jap seaplanes...