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...openly. When he returned at last to the U.S. in 1892 to spend the remaining 19 years of his life, the Japanese showered Kunshi with honors, as they did again last week in newspaper articles and at the unveiling of Yokohama's monument. Said Monument Committee Chairman Kumakichi Nakajima: "Lately we Japanese have made a great mistake in the direction of progress. We sincerely desire that this monument, although very small, may be a milestone for modern Japan's progress in the right direction...
...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...
Meanwhile the B-29s picked a new target on Japan and (by Jap account) followed a new roundabout course to reach the Tokyo area. About 100 of the Superfortresses took as their target the huge Nakajima Ota aircraft factory, 40 miles northwest of the capital. A half-dozen major buildings were splattered with bomb bursts. While the attack was going on, Japan's central island of Honshu shuddered also from a natural earthquake...
...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's commander, Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell Jr., after the second assault: "We haven't destroyed the plant-not by a damn sight." After the third...