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Close-mouthed U.S. communiques said the bombing had been "accurate and effective." Antiaircraft fire over the target was "moderate to intense." There was "some resistance" from enemy fighters. The number of planes in the attack was left blank; a communique said only a "sizable task force of B-29s." The cost of the attack was four aircraft: one knocked down by enemy flak over the target; one missing; two lost by accidents...
...China Problem. For this and for future raids, the worst problem for the B-29s now is not Japs but supply. All bombs, gas and technical equipment must be flown in over the "Hump" route from India. Planes bringing in gas use several times the amount of their payload, just to get it there; the B-29s have proved to be their own most efficient tank cars. How much they can haul, and how often they can crank up new raids, now rates a spot well up on the crowded list of things the Japs must worry about...
Besides, this amphibious campaign-of the made-in-America type by which U.S. forces in two hemispheres have conquered historic handicaps-would win bases for U.S. air fleets. If the Americans' monstrous B-29s could come from western China to Yawata, they could come from Saipan (and, doubtless, Guam) to Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe...
...Army security officers frowned, brooded, gnawed their thumbs. What was to prevent an enemy agent from counting the bongs? Any spy with ears could check off the exact number of V-29s being turned off the Wichita line. Finally Air Forces public-relations men could stand it no longer, took the company to task. Nonplussed, Boeing officials asserted that the whole bell-bonging idea had been suggested by no less than Lieut. General Bill Knudsen himself. They hinted that until they heard from some higher rank, the three-star order was good enough for them...
...John Harkness (H) defeated Colleton, fall in 1m, 29s...