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...colored command car, grinning and waving his thin brown hand, General Hodges rode through Atlanta's cheering streets. With him in the parade of cars rode eight other generals, 19 officers of lesser rank, 22 enlisted men, most of them Georgia boys, all grinning and gaping at the B-29s sweeping overhead (B-29s are a novelty to veterans of Europe...
Already bombed dozens of times, Tokyo ate bitterness and outrage last week as never before. In two attacks within 48 hours more than 1,000 B-29s sent fire crackling through the heart of the world's third largest city. And sacrilege upon sacrilege, Radio Tokyo gasped that "the honorable teahouse in the honorable garden of the Imperial Palace . . . and the honorable grounds of the Akasaka detached palace* were destroyed...
...B-29 fire raids on Nagoya tore a great swath through the center of Japan's third largest city and major aircraft production center. Two raids by more than 500 bombers each burned out nearly one-fourth of the city, hit the Mitsubishi Aircraft works (world's largest in area) and some 30 other military targets. At week's end B-29s turned on Hamamatsu, 60 miles southeast of Nagoya, to bomb more factories...
Billowing Fires. In the two biggest and most destructive attacks so far launched, The Cigar last week sent more than 900 B-29s against Japan. A first force of more than 400 set huge, billowing fires in the naval fueling station and synthetic fuel factory at Tokuyama, the big oil refinery at Otaki, and the oil storage installations on Oshima (biggest in the home islands). They also flogged four airfields on Kyushu and Shikoku. Fighter opposition was timid, but there was heavy flak from Jap warships. Nevertheless, not one of the big bombers was lost...
Next day, LeMay relaxed somewhat. sending a smaller force (100 to 150 B-29s) to bomb the Kawanishi aircraft plant near Kobe, biggest producer of Jap seaplanes...