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...might change the whole concept of war, he would run the B-29 show under the overall supervision of the U.S.'s top strategic airman, wise, imperturbable General Carl Spaatz. In Spaatz's command were both Twining's Twentieth and Lieut. General "Jimmy" Doolittle's Okinawa-based Eighth Air Force...
...rescue planes leave for their assigned areas as regularly as the bombers and fighters take off. The first boat, containing a "Gibson Girl" hand-cranked radio, was dropped May 30 to the crew of a plane shot up over Yokohama. Four crewmen drowned but seven were saved. With Okinawa also in U.S. hands a downed airman has an excellent chance of survival, even on the shores of Japan-unless Jap soldiers or fanatical civilians catch him first...
...Santa Fe was at Wake Island, Bougainville, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Truk, Palau, Yap, Hollandia, Wakde, Samar, Ponape, Pagan, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, Formosa. She sank a destroyer in the Bonins last August, and got four cargo ships off Mindanao, 2,000 miles to the southwest, in September...
...Pacific war, U.S. forces have always been handicapped by a dearth of accurate information. One minor example: intelligence officers warned that Okinawa was crawling with poisonous snakes, especially the habu, deadlier than a rattler. Last week some marines reported news of one of the few snakes so far discovered on Okinawa. The habu, cut into fillets and fried, made pretty good eating, the marines said...
...first full-scale raid ever made against the city, more than 200 Okinawa-based Liberators, Mitchells and Thunderbolts strafed and bombed Shanghai's harbor and airfields. No. 1 target, hit with 300 tons of explosives, was Kiangwan airdrome, containing 15 major hangars, four concrete bomber runways, and the biggest concentration of Jap planes in China. Next day the planes went back again. On neither trip were the Americans challenged by fighter opposition...