Word: musashino
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...days earlier, day raiders escorted by fighters from Iwo Jima had hammered Tokyo's Musashino-Nakajima factory for the eighth time, and others had blasted an aircraft factory in Koriyama, 110 miles north of Tokyo-the most northerly target so far attacked. From reconnaissance photographs, the results of last fortnight's raid on Nagoya were read: the Mitsubishi plant almost completely destroyed, 90% of the roofing gone over the whole target area. This week Tokyo was hit again-the third time in five days-by B-29s in "very great strength...
...planes came to the Superfortresses as they droned in on their fixed bomb-run courses over the Mitsubishi engine plant at Nagoya and the Musashino-Nakajima factory in a Tokyo suburb. The big planes met them with a hail of fire, shot down 136. The remaining 37 fell to the Mustangs, which had to chase their prey. Five U.S. bombers and two fighters were lost...
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