Word: kyushu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dropped on Hiroshima; in ways that could not be revealed, it was also, said Army & Navy officers, so much of an improvement that the first bomb was obsolete. It exploded on or near the ground, blasted a ghastly crater. It destroyed only one square mile of the Kyushu seaport, but spokesmen said that it had been more devastating than the first...
There was no such letup at Okinawa, dearly bought eyrie of the Far East Air Forces. General George C. Kenney sent B-24s to burn Kurume, on Kyushu Island; later waves turned aside to secondary targets near...
Somehow, after an indeterminate confinement, perhaps at forced labor to repair some of the damage they had wrought, these millions who had swarmed out like locusts must be shipped home-and somehow squeezed into teeming Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu and Hokkaido. Not one of the countries which they had plagued would keep them a day longer than necessary...
...Beginning. The first B-29 mission against Japan was flown June 15, 1944, when 68 planes from Chengtu, deep in China, bombed the Yawata Steel Works on Kyushu. The communiqué said hopefully that results were "effective." Four planes were lost on this pioneering mission. A total of 49 missions was flown from China, India and Burma bases, but B-29 men knew from the start that the invasion of the Marianas (begun at Saipan, also June 15) was far more important for their purposes. For in China every bomb, every gallon of gasoline had to be flown over...
Current Operations. For the moment, at any rate, air power was working 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...