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...Boeing B-29s are a white hope of the Pacific war: military men expect them to carry the U.S. message of force direct to the Japanese people, who still seem to think that everything is hunky-dory for the New Order. Last week the B-29s took off on two different types of raids, not from their old China bases but from India, where the B-29s' vast bellies could be easily filled with gasoline and bombs...
...week's end, in a skillfully integrated attack, the largest force of B-29 Superfortresses yet sent on an attack (well over 100) swept out from their bases around Chengtu in western China. They followed two flights of navy planes over Formosa's greatest arsenal at Okayama. Two days later, they returned to strike again. In all, only two B-29s were lost...
...Forces General "Hap" Arnold made Dick Carmichael his executive assistant, sent him on inspection trips. When the time came to pick men for the Twentieth Air Force-the Superfortress command-Carmichael was given one of the first groups. He flew every B-29 mission until Aug. 20. That day four B-29s were shot down over Japan. The pilot of one of them, listed last week as "missing," was Colonel Richard Carmichael...
...target was an old favorite, Yawata on Kyushu. Over Yawata's steel plants, the B-29s wheeled into the heaviest ack-ack barrage the enemy had ever thrown...
...corkscrewed toward the giant bombers. The lead bombers went over so fast and so high that the Japs could hardly get a pass at them. One fighter rammed a bomber it had been following, and both fell to destruction. But most Nip fighters cagily stayed beyond range of the B-29s' heavy armament until they could pick on a plane damaged by flak...