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Little Iwo, only five miles by three, covering only eight square miles, lay almost exactly halfway between Guam and Tokyo. From its airfields enemy planes had attacked B-29s and their fields at Saipan; its radar station had tattled to Tokyo whenever B-29s were...
Meanwhile the B-29s picked a new target on Japan and (by Jap account) followed a new roundabout course to reach the Tokyo area. About 100 of the Superfortresses took as their target the huge Nakajima Ota aircraft factory, 40 miles northwest of the capital. A half-dozen major buildings were splattered with bomb bursts. While the attack was going on, Japan's central island of Honshu shuddered also from a natural earthquake...
...theB-29 route between the Marianas and Japan, the surface of the ocean is broken by a pimple called Iwo Jima or Sulphur Island. There the Japanese have maintained three airfields, also a radar station to detect the B-29s and flash word to Tokyo, 750 miles away, giving more than two hours' warning of the bombers' approach. By last week, U.S. planes had bombed little Iwo for 66 consecutive days...
...battlefields northeast of Canton, darkness persisted. The Japanese who had overrun the American air bases at Suichwan and Kanhsien pressed on to Namyung, source of steel-hardening wolfram. The great airfield at Sincheng, big enough for B-29s, was lost just nine days after an army of coolies had completed the heartbreaking task of pounding the runways smooth and straight...
...against the B-29 base at Saipan. For an hour and a half, a 16-inch-gun battleship, heavy cruisers and destroyers poured shells into the 2½-by-5-mile island's airfields, gun emplacements and docks. Three enemy ships were destroyed. Earlier the same day, B-29s and B-24s had dumped almost 200 tons of bombs on the nuisance raiders' lair. The little island was getting a lot of attention...