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Tanks on Tinian. North of Guam, 125 miles, lay another U.S.-Jap battlefield: 48-square-mile Tinian, only three miles from Saipan. On its comparatively level ground, the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions deployed more tanks than had yet been seen on a Pacific island...
...moved 200 miles closer to the Philippines. Leapfrogging along the coast of New Guinea, his troops landed on the island's northwestern tip at Sansapor, grabbed two coastal islands in the bargain. Said MacArthur: "The enemy is now unable to operate beyond his Philippine-Halmahera line"-i.e., the Jap was out of New Guinea so far as any more offensive action was concerned...
...morning the Monsoon and dozens of her sister ships flew to the northeast, half the time over Jap-occupied areas of China. Over the Gulf of Chihli, in hazy weather, she lost her formation. But at 11:11 a.m. the target was in sight. Other squadrons had marked it with two great fires, one in the midst of the factory district...
Boom in Boomtown. The target was a group of war factories in the Jap boomtown of Anshan, 53 miles south-southwest of Mukden, where the Japs began their conquest of China 13 years ago. Dominating the forest of chimneys which rose from the Manchurian plain were the stacks of the Showa Steel Works, largest in the conquered provinces, Japan's No. 2 producer of pig iron, No. 3 producer of rolled steel and steel ingots...
...Superfortresses droned over the cluster of factories in their first daylight operation, flames from the bombed plants billowed up to 6,000 feet, smoke to 26,000. But the B-29s were above these, above the ack-ack, and above the effective fighting ceiling of Jap Zeroes. The first high-level operation of the kind for which B-29s were designed (as distinct from medium-altitude night bombing such as the two previous attacks on Yawata and Sasebo) was a success. Only two planes were lost. Total for three raids...