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...Jap-mandated islands in the Pacific (including the Carolines, Marshalls and Marianas), plus the Bonin Islands, Marcus, Ryukyu and Formosa...
...Challenging Twentieth. While the next major moves were in preparation, the Jap was kept rocking on his heels by jabs from air forces working from all points of the compass, and by a heavy B-29 blow against the homeland...
Brigadier General La Verne ("Blondy") Saunders launched the Twentieth Bomber Command on the heaviest aerial assault yet staged from Asiatic bases. He threw his full striking power into a 24-hour assault; he challenged the defensive reserves of the Jap air force with the first daylight raid on the homeland-the kind of mission for which the Superfortress was designed...
Through waves of black, scudding flak, Jap fighters corkscrewed toward the giant bombers. The lead bombers went over so fast and so high that the Japs could hardly get a pass at them. One fighter rammed a bomber it had been following, and both fell to destruction. But most Nip fighters cagily stayed beyond range of the B-29s' heavy armament until they could pick on a plane damaged by flak...
Within 30 minutes, another tense battle was going on-this time a volleyball match-and the scene might have been more appropriate to a college gymnasium than to a spot 90 miles from Jap bases...