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From China and from the Marianas, B-29s were keeping Formosa, Kyushu and Honshu under attack. Their performance was getting better. The 21st Bomber Command (Saipan and Guam) struck at a tempting target, the Kawasaki aircraft factory near Kobe, where the Japs made the new twin-engined fighter known as "Nick." Returning pilots, with photographs to back them, reported 315 hits in the target area, and the plant out of operation for months...
From Singapore to Formosa to Tokyo, meanwhile, the B-29s flying from India, China and Saipan gave the enemy no rest. Every arm of air and sea-air warfare was swinging heavy and repeated blows to keep the enemy reeling while the landing on Luzon was made good...
...whole area in between was quaking and ablaze. B-29s from western China struck an aircraft factory at Omura, in southwestern Japan, and droned seven hours over occupied Nanking. Others, from India, hit at Bangkok. Still others, from Saipan, worked on the unfinished business of wrecking aircraft factories at Nagoya, and kept Tokyo's air-raid wardens sleepless, night...
...with cut-down bomb-loads and carefully calculated fuel allowances to make the run and get home. But as airmen worked into intimate acquaintanceship with their massive, wondrously complicated weapon, the assaults were stepped up both in timing and in loads dropped. This week, when the B-29s had struck the great industrial center at Nagoya a second time, the force on Saipan could count five assaults on the Jap mainland...
...each carrying two tons of bombs. Covering them were 30 Lightning fighters. And below them, adding bombardment to bombing, were cruisers and destroyers under Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith. It was the heaviest air strike in the history of the Pacific war, and marked the first time that B-29s had teamed with other forces. The bombing was through overcast, but with some 1,300 tons of steel and explosive rained upon its installations, concentrated into eight square miles, Sulphur Island earned its name...