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...Superfortresses droned over the cluster of factories in their first daylight operation, flames from the bombed plants billowed up to 6,000 feet, smoke to 26,000. But the B-29s were above these, above the ack-ack, and above the effective fighting ceiling of Jap Zeroes. The first high-level operation of the kind for which B-29s were designed (as distinct from medium-altitude night bombing such as the two previous attacks on Yawata and Sasebo) was a success. Only two planes were lost. Total for three raids...
Stealthily through a Solomons channel a Jap Kongo Class battleship slipped near dusk on Oct. 25. A squad of Navy SBDs dive-bombed it, streaked back to Guadalcanal. A half-hour later six Army Flying Fortresses swung over the channel. From a tight, high-level formation they straddle-bombed the ship, scored two square hits. The battleship turned 45 degrees, headed north. Suddenly a magazine let loose. Fire leaped from bow to stern. The ship stopped dead. For hours the calm South Pacific sky and sea were lighted by flames until at midnight the battleship sank...
...There is now a tendency towards low-level bombing to the displacement of high-level bombing altogether. . . . Normal anti-aircraft guns mounted on the ground cannot follow low-flying aircraft more than a few seconds [and] fighter planes cannot dive down upon the bombers...
...Caledonia and the New Hebrides, as well as from General MacArthur's sphere in Australia and New Guinea, across the incredibly inefficient and arbitrary line dividing Army-Navy command in the area (see map). The Army has recently delighted the Navy by taking to low-level attacks. High-level "precision" bombing has not been too precise in the Pacific. Last week heavy bombers went into Rabaul at mast level, and sank or damaged ten ships...
Sept. 12.-Aircraft and submarines started shadowing the convoy. Six bombers made a high-level attack. Then 40 to 50 torpedo bombers came down in close formation. Ack-ack got five. Carrier-based planes got five more. Enemy mine layers then appeared, and the convoy's minesweepers went into action. Later nine more torpedo bombers attacked, but were kept at a safe distance. Two were downed. At dusk came a third contingent of twelve. Six were sent crashing into...