Word: omura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mitsubishi heavy-industry plant, he said warningly, "Thank you for your cooperation. I hope you will work for a healthy labor union." To coal miners, he appealed, "I should like to ask you to produce much more." To the children of the Catholic Holy Mother Orphanage at Omura, he admonished, "Work hard, pray to Jesus Christ, and grow to be good...
...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...
...their homeland watchful Japs were rewarded last week by the sight of B-29 Superfortresses, bucking winds of hurricane force to bomb the airplane factory center of Omura, on Kyushu Island. The Japs had no way of knowing that these China- based planes had been ordered by radio to swing over to secondary targets when the weather turned bad, but had failed to receive the message. Squadrons which received the signal bombed Nanking and Shanghai instead...