Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Target: Yawata. For their opening blow the U.S. heavyweights flew more than 2,000 miles to drop a great weight of explosives on Yawata, "Japan's Pittsburgh," and the sprawling Imperial Iron & Steel Works, source of one-fifth of all Japanese war steel...
...trip-the long jaunt across the water. We put on our Mae Wests and settled down for the run that would bring us around midnight over Japan's biggest iron and steel works, on Kyushu Island. The senior gunner, Sergeant Allen, asked the pilot for permission to blow the guns: there was a chattering rattle all round us as Allen and his mates tested their powerful armament...
...heaviest blow of the vast Pacific war struck the Japanese Empire in the week when U.S. air bombardment of the homeland began. U.S. amphibious forces, from what was probably the mightiest naval task group ever assembled, stormed ashore on heavily fortified Saipan. They were only 1,500 miles from Tokyo. Previous landing assaults had been against the outer perimeter of Jap defenses. But this was disaster close to home...
...hospitals were robot-bombed. A nurse in one said she was awakened by the approach of something "like a ball of fire in the sky." Seconds later "there was a terrific explosion and the whole place seemed to blow up. . . . When I got myself free I found a part of the home demolished. I heard cries of nurses trapped under the debris. We got some of them free by clearing away the wreckage with our hands...
Italy's new Premier, gentle Ivanoe Bonomi, got a rough ultimatum from London: put ex-Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio back in the Cabinet, or else. For Italy's anti-Fascist politicians, proud of their "pure-of-Fascism" Government, it was a grievous blow...