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Refueled, revictualed and rearmed after their February strikes against the Tokyo area, the fast carrier task groups of the Pacific Fleet were on the rampage again. Presumably still operating as Task Force 58, under Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher, they appeared defiantly this week southeast of Kyushu Island, where they were ringed about by enemy bases in the Izu Islands, in Japan proper and in the Ryukyus. If the Jap Navy-or that part of it has been repaired-wanted a fight, it could have...
...dawn Mitscher's attack groups studded the sky over Shikoku, over the Inland Sea, over western Honshu and over Kyushu. The Japs were sadly confused, but they finally settled on the salient facts...
From China and from the Marianas, B-29s were keeping Formosa, Kyushu and Honshu under attack. Their performance was getting better. The 21st Bomber Command (Saipan and Guam) struck at a tempting target, the Kawasaki aircraft factory near Kobe, where the Japs made the new twin-engined fighter known as "Nick." Returning pilots, with photographs to back them, reported 315 hits in the target area, and the plant out of operation for months...
...their homeland watchful Japs were rewarded last week by the sight of B-29 Superfortresses, bucking winds of hurricane force to bomb the airplane factory center of Omura, on Kyushu Island. The Japs had no way of knowing that these China- based planes had been ordered by radio to swing over to secondary targets when the weather turned bad, but had failed to receive the message. Squadrons which received the signal bombed Nanking and Shanghai instead...
...target was an old favorite, Yawata on Kyushu. Over Yawata's steel plants, the B-29s wheeled into the heaviest ack-ack barrage the enemy had ever thrown...