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...last week, before still another turning point came, some 150 square miles of Japan's greatest industrial centers had been burned out. In a four-week period devoted exclusively to low-level missions, the loss of planes dropped well below 1%. Because the gasoline used in climbing was saved, the bomb tonnage per plane rose spectacularly, from 2.8 to 7.5 tons. (For Japan-bound planes refueling at Iwo, it rose to 10 tons.) High-level bombing was not out for good, but low-bombing...
Deadpan, 38-year-old Major General Curtis E. ("The Cigar") LeMay, responsible for the B-29s' hugely successful low-level fire raids, had to give up his B-29 command for a new - and bigger - job last week. He became chief of staff to General Carl Spaatz, commander of strategic air forces in the Pacific. LeMay's beloved Twentieth Air Force got a new commander. The new man : smooth, handsome Nathan Farragut ("The Champ") Twining, 48, back in the Pacific (where he was once lost at sea for six days) after a distinguished job of long-range bombardment...
...inevitable point of invasion-regardless of cost. From its fields Jap planes had menaced U.S. B-29s based in the Marianas; from the same fields U.S. long-range fighters will be able to give the Superforts escort to Tokyo. Perhaps even more important, an Iwo base will let low-level photo-reconnaissance planes do a thorough job on Japan's coast. (Highflying B-29s could not make satisfactory photo-maps because of persistent cloud cover...
...destroyers. Then he made a beeline back to Mindoro, gassed up and had his plane armed with four 500-lb. bombs. While other strikes were being set up, he flew back to the Jap task force's course, picked out the battleship as his target. A low-level run with his flying boxcar in the face of concentrated ack-ack resulted in two misses, two direct hits. But the 500-pounders were as flea bites to the armored monster, and the enemy force drove...
Threat, Kindness, Shop Talk. With this piece of information-and Williams' hint that low-level bombing is the unit's specialty-the prison camp's commandant quickly calls the bluff of a cocky U.S. technical sergeant who has lied to him about the unit number, base and other matters. The commandant follows up by threatening to shoot Captain Spencer unless the surprised sergeant spills some more. The sergeant spills. In another part of the camp, another sergeant is getting the reverse treatment: after a scary but harmless session in a hotbox cell, he is lured into blabbing...