Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General Millard F. Harmon, commander of the new Air Force (of Army and Navy bombers), passed up the temptation to make a Pearl Harbor anniversary attack on Tokyo with his B-29s.* But the heart of the enemy's homeland was devastated that day far more effectively than the available Superforts could have done it. An earthquake shook Japan at 1149 and 1153 p.m., Tokyo time...
Three Arms as One. Next day the weight of U.S. air power in the Marianas was thrown into the assault-not on Japan itself, but upon a tiny outpost which was protecting the homeland against heavier B-29 batterings. To Sulphur Island (Iwo Jima) in the Volcano group, midway between Saipan and Tokyo, went a "sizable force" of Superforts-70 to 100 of them, each carrying up to ten tons of bombs...
...iron control. The average German soldier knows that he has the weather and the fortifications on his side. And he is, as Churchill pointed out, spurred on by the same "supreme stimulus" which so strengthened Britain in the dark days of 1940-41-i.e., the defense of a beloved homeland...
...Fatherland. But the soil of Germany was different from the soil of Russia and its neighbors. In the homeland the Germans had built deeper, more elaborate defenses, had strengthened them for the last year with more than a million men of the Todt organization. Swedish reporters talked learnedly of a new German "rolling defense" fathered by Field Marshal Heinz Guderian, eastern front commander, now fully restored to Adolf Hitler's fitful favor. Already emplaced in whole provinces, enormous masses of movable concrete bunkers of eight to 15 tons, called "scorpions," formed "tank landscapes." Before them were six or eight...
...their homeland watchful Japs were rewarded last week by the sight of B-29 Superfortresses, bucking winds of hurricane force to bomb the airplane factory center of Omura, on Kyushu Island. The Japs had no way of knowing that these China- based planes had been ordered by radio to swing over to secondary targets when the weather turned bad, but had failed to receive the message. Squadrons which received the signal bombed Nanking and Shanghai instead...