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From Singapore to Formosa to Tokyo, meanwhile, the B-29s flying from India, China and Saipan gave the enemy no rest. Every arm of air and sea-air warfare was swinging heavy and repeated blows to keep the enemy reeling while the landing on Luzon was made good...
...whole area in between was quaking and ablaze. B-29s from western China struck an aircraft factory at Omura, in southwestern Japan, and droned seven hours over occupied Nanking. Others, from India, hit at Bangkok. Still others, from Saipan, worked on the unfinished business of wrecking aircraft factories at Nagoya, and kept Tokyo's air-raid wardens sleepless, night...
...with cut-down bomb-loads and carefully calculated fuel allowances to make the run and get home. But as airmen worked into intimate acquaintanceship with their massive, wondrously complicated weapon, the assaults were stepped up both in timing and in loads dropped. This week, when the B-29s had struck the great industrial center at Nagoya a second time, the force on Saipan could count five assaults on the Jap mainland...
Seismographs around the world recorded the shocks as possibly far more severe than those of 1923, when the U.S. sent quick aid to devastated Yokohama and Tokyo. Perhaps because single B-29s from Saipan kept droning over, photographing the results of the latest disaster, Jap broadcasters belatedly conceded that "the quake was severe," although they asserted that "the inhabitants of central Japan enjoyed sitting on Mother Earth's cradle...
...Navy), each carrying two tons of bombs. Covering them were 30 Lightning fighters. And below them, adding bombardment to bombing, were cruisers and destroyers under Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith. It was the heaviest air strike in the history of the Pacific war, and marked the first time that B-29s had teamed with other forces. The bombing was through overcast, but with some 1,300 tons of steel and explosive rained upon its installations, concentrated into eight square miles, Sulphur Island earned its name...