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June: First B-29s to raid Japan bombed Yawata from China bases...
November: B-29s began bombing Tokyo from the Marianas...
...March: B-29s began fire-bomb raids...
August 2: More than 800 B-29s dropped 6,632 tons of explosives on Japan in a single day. Halsey's Third Fleet roamed up & down the Japanese coast, shelling cities without opposition...
From Iwo, too, air-sea rescue planes could go to the shores of Japan to pick up downed airmen, and that was good for LeMay's V.L.R.-men to know. Finally, B-29s used Iwo as a gasoline filling station on the way to Japan, thus increasing their bombloads. Among B-29 men time is divided "before Iwo'' and "after...