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This week the Jap radio underscored the Admiral's words by announcing that a tremendous force of 900 carrier planes was attacking airfields and other installations on Kyushu, Shikoku and Honshu, making 14 strikes between dawn and 2 p.m. Right along with it, Japan was catching the heaviest punches ever thrown by the B-29 Superforts (see below...
...Superfortresses now have a handy way station-Iwo Jima-on which to land when they are lamed in combat or too short of fuel to make it back to Guam, Saipan or Tinian. Fighter escort from Iwo has also helped to cut losses. Result: the Jap airfields on Kyushu have taken a persistent beating, and enemy fighter production has been cut 50%. In April, the B-295 unloaded 30,000 tons of bombs-as much as in the ten preceding months-but U.S. losses dropped to half the rate for the previous three months...
...last week Japan's own skies echoed to the roar of 6-29 motors. Airfields on Kyushu whence enemy planes have been attacking U.S. positions on Okinawa were furrowed by exploding bombs. Intent bombardiers sighted carefully and began an anniversary celebration that was to go on for three straight days of attack...
...bombers. For the first time, but probably not the last, the long-range Superfortresses did a chore of close-up tactical bombing in direct support of the Okinawa operations. Four times in six days, large forces of them ranged far & wide over Japan's home island of Kyushu, hammering airfields from medium altitude...
...always over the beaches came the supplies. The Japs sent land-based aircraft against the ships. In one day 242 were shot down. To soften the enemy's air attacks on Okinawa Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 58 steamed into Japanese waters, struck at Kyushu, destroyed 368 enemy planes in four days...