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...alarm bells of history clanged last week for more than Tokyo. While the air attack on the Empire's capital was going on, the impatient Americans in Luzon were rushing back onto Bataan and Corregidor. Other Americans swarmed ashore on Iwo Jima-an island as menacingly close to Japan's heart as Bermuda is to New York. The war-worn Chinese rallied to take back a section of the hard-won Canton-Hankow railway line. A jungle-trekking British force popped up to menace the conquered oil-field district of Burma. There were more fires than fire brigades...
...their drama, the air strikes on Tokyo were incidental. They were designed to isolate the battlefield, to pin the Japs' home-based aircraft to the ground, while more Navy plans unfolded at Iwo Jima-also known as Sulphur Island...
...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...
...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...