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...heaviest night attack by B-29s since July, but nobody claimed that the obdurate enemy had been badly hurt...
...scant 40 miles from Soviet Siberia, carrier planes from the Princeton and Bon Homme Richard twice bombed Hoeryong, a major supply center and port of entry from Manchuria to Korea. On the Yalu River, three dozen B-29s blasted the Suiho power plants, 1,000 yards from the Manchurian border, where the Reds were repairing damage caused in earlier raids. This is the first time that the big bombers have struck so close to Manchuria. Last June, when light bombers blasted the Suiho plants, there was a big fuss in Great Britain. Last week the British were informed...
...hand grenades were being turned out every day at a Communist small-arms plant at Nakwon, just south of the Yalu in northwestern Korea. Early last week U.S. planes dropped leaflets warning the people of Nakwon that an air raid was coming. Next day 14 B-29s lumbered over, through heavy flak and passes by enemy interceptors, and blasted the grenade factory to bits...
From bases on Okinawa and Japan, the Far East Bomber Command sent out 63 B-29s to bomb the plant of the Oriental Light Metals Co. (prewar production: 40,000 metric tons of aluminum a year), situated four miles from the Yalu and eight miles from the Communist's big jet-fighter base at Antung. It was the biggest single-target night air strike of the Korean...
...production man or engineer, he learned the plane business so well that he was made a director, was put into the top spot at the death of Philip G. Johnson. The day of his election., the Government canceled all Boeing's war contracts for B-29s Boeing had to lay off 25,000 men. The next day, Bill Allen scrounged for something to keep going...