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...dream came true last week for U.S. Army aviators: they got their chance to loose avalanches of fire bombs on Tokyo and Nagoya, and they proved that, properly kindled, Japanese cities will burn like autumn leaves...
...Tokyo, where the main administrative and business section had been rebuilt in reinforced concrete after the 1923 earthquake, the B-29 firebirds' commanders selected a 10-sq.-mi. area of flimsier construction, east of the Imperial Palace. In Nagoya-which had suffered little from earthquakes, and so had not been modernized-it was a 5-sq.-mi. area in the heart of the city...
...whole area in between was quaking and ablaze. B-29s from western China struck an aircraft factory at Omura, in southwestern Japan, and droned seven hours over occupied Nanking. Others, from India, hit at Bangkok. Still others, from Saipan, worked on the unfinished business of wrecking aircraft factories at Nagoya, and kept Tokyo's air-raid wardens sleepless, night...
Good and Not So Good. The 21st Bomber Command, at Saipan, had started later and gained faster. In its first month of operations, beginning Nov. 24, it had dropped more than 1,500 tons on Honshu, concentrating on aircraft factories around Tokyo and Nagoya. The Japs had new interceptors of improved types (known as Jack and Irving). U.S. airmen did not underrate the threat of these planes; the factories building them were top-priority targets. The Nakajima Company's great Musashina factory on Tokyo's outskirts was hit three times before year's end. Said the 21st...
...There was no more talk of burning Japan's papier-mâché cities; some, like Nagoya or Osaka, never modernized (as was Tokyo after the 1923 earthquake), might be fired by overs or shorts intended for factories on their outskirts. If so, it would be incidental. After aircraft factories, highest priority targets would be shipyards, power plants and steel mills. But there was nothing rigid about the plan for bombing Japan or about the thinking of those who were doing the planning...