Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lash at Nagoya within 48 hours; as a rule, half the heavy bombers used on a strike are ready to fly again four days later. It was downright miraculous that a high proportion of the Superfortresses used in the first two strikes were ready for use again at Osaka, again at Kobe, and in a repeat raid on Nagoya-all within ten days. Some of LeMay's ground crews on Saipan, Tinian and Guam, worked 48 hours nonstop to compass this miracle...
...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...
...production officials and Jap Navymen, whose yards were choked with ships under repair, Mother Earth was singing no lullaby. It was admitted that homes and buildings in the Tokyo-Yokohama region were ruined by landslides, that factories along the 250-mile coastal strip from Tokyo to Osaka were damaged...
...Born in Osaka, Japan, Dooman lived in the Orient for over 30 years and is well steeped in the customs, manners, and reasoning of our enemy. He became a member of the United States Embassy at Tokyo and after many years of service rose to the post of Chief Consul in 1937, a position directly under Ambassador Joseph C. Grew...
...made-in-America type by which U.S. forces in two hemispheres have conquered historic handicaps-would win bases for U.S. air fleets. If the Americans' monstrous B-29s could come from western China to Yawata, they could come from Saipan (and, doubtless, Guam) to Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe...