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...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...
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...
...dive bombers circling to land on Guam and knocked off six, ending his rampage with only one gun still working. On that day the Rippers got 51 planes in aerial combat, a record which the Rippers shattered themselves five days later by shooting down 67 planes over Iwo Jima...
Watch a video about the iconic photo of Iwo Jima...
...Pisidian Antioch,* an expedition financed by the University of Michigan and including Dr. David M. Robinson of Johns Hopkins University, unearthed two paved squares, one dedicated to Tiberius, the other to Augustus, a flight of marble steps and a propylea connecting the Iwo squares. The major find was the ruins of a great temple built in the first century by Augustus with a frieze of bulls' heads connected by garlands of leaves and fruit...