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...waters off Omaha Beach in the first 48 hours after Dday. Both the Commodore and his executive officer work right alongside their men in easy informality, sometimes have to argue their zealous divers into knocking off work. The strangest fruit they have plucked out of Manila harbor: a Jap ship filled with glass marbles...
...grimly on Japan. Planes from General George C. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Force moved up to Okinawa,* and joined in operations against Kyushu. Iwo-based P-51 Mustangs strafed Tokyo's "protective" airfields, against no airborne opposition. Blockading aircraft from Fleet Air Wing 1 sank six Jap ships off China and Korea...
...still carried the big load. By the end of the first week in July, the Twentieth Air Force had burned out more than 126 square miles of 25 Jap cities...
...planes each, one of 600 (on which not a B-29 was lost). By their own admission, the B-29 flyers were running out of industrial targets. Next on the priority list: railroads, hydroelectric plants and port installations. One prime target remains out of even B-29 range: the Jap air force. Since fighter opposition lately has been almost nil, the Japs presumably have withdrawn their remaining planes to the far north, saving them for the invasion...
...this month, the Eighth had counted 58,365 Jap dead and 1,759 prisoners in its forward areas, another 3,735 dead and 461 prisoners in such rear areas as Biak and Hollandia...