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...Precipitation static generated by B-29s was six times as great as that generated by a Flying Fortress, often knocked out radios completely. The professors found that the static could be neutralized by a small generator which would fill the ship with a countercharge...
...professors' toughest current problems is weather. Because Superfortress folk could get no weather reports from Siberia, where Japanese weather makes up, highflying B-29s had to be sent dangerously far up the Chinese coast and into the interior on weather-charting trips. To assist in this risky business, Dr. Helmut E. Landsberg, University of Chicago meteorologist, assigned experts to develop radio-sondes, dropped by parachute, to pick up vital ground-level weather data. When perfected, they will considerably bolster predictions of Air Force forecasters in the Marianas...
...northerly target so far attacked. From reconnaissance photographs, the results of last fortnight's raid on Nagoya were read: the Mitsubishi plant almost completely destroyed, 90% of the roofing gone over the whole target area. This week Tokyo was hit again-the third time in five days-by B-29s in "very great strength...
Army General Arnold will be not the least important member of the operating firm. He is himself one of the Joint Chiefs (the others: George Marshall, Ernest King, the President's Fleet Admiral William Leahy). His Pacific assignment is to boss the virtually autonomous, global Twentieth Air Force B-29s. As chief of the Army Air Forces he will also command smaller Army bombers. The theorists who believe that a nation can be brought to its knees by airpower may get another chance to prove it. Congested, inflammable Japan is an excellent laboratory...
...closed in on Japan with a rapidity which, only a year ago, seemed inconceivable. Last week, as a great fleet of B-29s made the heaviest demolition attack on the Japanese heartland, Premier Kuniaki Koiso and his cronies (see FOREIGN NEWS) gibbered of invasion. Actually, Allied forces now have no base large enough, or close enough to Japan, to launch amphibious operations against the main islands. But they are moving ahead on an accelerated schedule, and this week, by Jap account, an amphibious force was off the Kerama Islands, within sight of Okinawa, within 400 miles of Kyushu. If confirmed...