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Major General Curtis E. ("Ironpants") LeMay has lately become known as "The Cigar." He usually has one clenched in his teeth (it helps to cover a slight facial paralysis, the result of an old wound), and the boys of his 21st Bomber (B29) Command, in sincerest flattery, have also become cigar puffers. Last week their stogies stuck up at a cocky angle. Their morale and their operational results were soaring...
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...
...Then The Cigar wound up and really let the Japs have it. The war's greatest B-29 fleet - "well over 500" Superforts -poured a searing load of 3,300 tons of fire bombs on Nagoya, third city of the Japanese Empire and home of the main Mitsubishi aircraft factories. Two bombers were lost...
...pregnant matrons among them. There is also Aning Andao, a wizened old lady in a brocaded black head cover, grey striped shirt and patched quilted skirt, wearing an athlete's gold medal around her neck. She has the milky rings of old age around her irises and old cigar stains on her teeth, but she can climb and carry with the best of them...
After five hours of cigar smoke over half a dozen other names, the big league moguls got together on a compromise...