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...closed in on Japan with a rapidity which, only a year ago, seemed inconceivable. Last week, as a great fleet of B-29s made the heaviest demolition attack on the Japanese heartland, Premier Kuniaki Koiso and his cronies (see FOREIGN NEWS) gibbered of invasion. Actually, Allied forces now have no base large enough, or close enough to Japan, to launch amphibious operations against the main islands. But they are moving ahead on an accelerated schedule, and this week, by Jap account, an amphibious force was off the Kerama Islands, within sight of Okinawa, within 400 miles of Kyushu. If confirmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Closing In | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Tokyo Bonfire. The great planes took off about sunset. At Tokyo there were few enemy night fighters in the air, and the antiaircraft fire was set for 20,000 to 30,000 feet. This time, the B-29s foxed the Jap gunners and came in between 5,000 and 7,000. Visibility was good; the wind was moderate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Firebirds' Flight | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Several homebound B-29s made emergency landings on Iwo Jima's hastily repaired southern airfield. The Marines who had given their lives to win Iwo had not died in vain. Only two B-29s were lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Firebirds' Flight | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...Task Force 58 into Japanese home waters, and sent off air strikes against airfields around Tokyo. This time coordination with Major General Curtis E. ("Old Ironpants") LeMay's 21st Bomber Command was closer: hot on the vapor trails of Mitscher's planes came more than 200 B-29s with more than 1,000 tons of bombs to batter the Tokyo area and secondary targets, further isolating the battlefield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Inevitable Island | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...Navy pointed out last week, Iwo had been an inevitable point of invasion-regardless of cost. From its fields Jap planes had menaced U.S. B-29s based in the Marianas; from the same fields U.S. long-range fighters will be able to give the Superforts escort to Tokyo. Perhaps even more important, an Iwo base will let low-level photo-reconnaissance planes do a thorough job on Japan's coast. (Highflying B-29s could not make satisfactory photo-maps because of persistent cloud cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Inevitable Island | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

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