Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theB-29 route between the Marianas and Japan, the surface of the ocean is broken by a pimple called Iwo Jima or Sulphur Island. There the Japanese have maintained three airfields, also a radar station to detect the B-29s and flash word to Tokyo, 750 miles away, giving more than two hours' warning of the bombers' approach. By last week, U.S. planes had bombed little Iwo for 66 consecutive days...
...carriers of Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet, after weeks of rampaging up & down the coast of Asia and its guardian islands, had no new action to report. The spotlight of fleet activity was on flyspeck Sulphur Island (Iwo Jima), mid way between Guam and Tokyo, where the enemy persisted in repairing bomb-pocked airstrips in order to fly off planes against the B-29 base at Saipan. For an hour and a half, a 16-inch-gun battleship, heavy cruisers and destroyers poured shells into the 2½-by-5-mile island's airfields, gun emplacements...
...Millard F. Harmon was doubling in brass as deputy commander of the worldwide Twentieth Air Force and as commander, Strategic Air Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas. For the present, he had to use his 6-243 (and occasionally some of his precious 6-295) to keep hammering at Sulphur Island (Iwo Jima) in the Volcano group, whence Jap fighters took off to harry 6-295 bombing Honshu, and whence Jap bombers took off to bomb the Superfort base at Saipan.* Later, when bases nearer to Japan had been won, Harmon could use 8-24 Liberators alongside their bigger cousins against...
...Last week, the Japs were still able to fly bombers off Iwo Jima after 21 consecutive days of pounding by U.S. heavies and three warship bombardments...
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...