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...such short hauls each B-29 could carry perhaps ten tons of bombs, an unheard-of load for any bomber in the vast Pacific theater. All the B-29s returned, but three P-47s of the escort -the first the Superfortresses ever had-were lost to heavy antiaircraft fire at the target: Rangoon's railway yards...
...Boeing B-29s are a white hope of the Pacific war: military men expect them to carry the U.S. message of force direct to the Japanese people, who still seem to think that everything is hunky-dory for the New Order. Last week the B-29s took off on two different types of raids, not from their old China bases but from India, where the B-29s' vast bellies could be easily filled with gasoline and bombs...
...Superfortresses yet sent on an attack (well over 100) swept out from their bases around Chengtu in western China. They followed two flights of navy planes over Formosa's greatest arsenal at Okayama. Two days later, they returned to strike again. In all, only two B-29s were lost...
...Arnold made Dick Carmichael his executive assistant, sent him on inspection trips. When the time came to pick men for the Twentieth Air Force-the Superfortress command-Carmichael was given one of the first groups. He flew every B-29 mission until Aug. 20. That day four B-29s were shot down over Japan. The pilot of one of them, listed last week as "missing," was Colonel Richard Carmichael...
...toward the giant bombers. The lead bombers went over so fast and so high that the Japs could hardly get a pass at them. One fighter rammed a bomber it had been following, and both fell to destruction. But most Nip fighters cagily stayed beyond range of the B-29s' heavy armament until they could pick on a plane damaged by flak...