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...True Hearts. A few things were not so grim. Newspapers reported with wonderment the case of a young Osaka worker employed by the U.S. Army. He had been hit by a tram and seriously injured. Three U.S. corporals called on him in the hospital, offered to pay his medical expenses. His family was "overcome with the sense of true-heartedness of the Allied soldiers...
...jampacked industrial cities are wrecked: Kobe 56%, Nagasaki 30%, Nagoya 31%, Osaka 26%, Yokohama 44%. Of Japan's important cities only one was untouched: Kyoto, the shrine city, apparently spared for psychological reasons...
...left Osaka with two engines severely damaged; the crew bailed out near Sofu Gan, 350 miles off the Japanese coast. Three planes (two PBYs, a B17) which were near by to spot such trouble marked the survivors' area with smoke bombs. The survivors opened their dye markers, which colored the water green around each man. The B-17 "Dumbo"* dropped a 1½-ton, two-engined Higgins boat by parachute. Two men crawled into the boat, picked up the other survivors. The Dumbo radioed a submarine, which reached the Higgins boat next morning. One man was lost: the flight...
...General of the Army Henry H. Arnold dropped in on Guam to hunt up parking space for some of his 12,000 European combat airplanes, and prepared to realign air force commands for the big Pacific push. While 520 of his Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortresses bombed shuddering Osaka for the fifth time, proud Hap Arnold outlined to correspondents the kind of punishment U.S. airmen planned for Japan...
Major General Curtis E. LeMay, commander of the Marianas Superforts, gave more details: "Yokohama is gone, Nagoya is no longer a worthwhile target. Kobe is gone. Soon we'll be striking smaller cities in the 100,000-population class." Osaka had had it, and only ten square miles of Tokyo's 60-sq. mi. industrial area was left intact-one year after the first B-29 raid on Japan. Unlike Germany, Japan lacks the time, technicians and industrial savvy to rebuild ruined factories quickly. Said General LeMay: "It is just a matter of time before we get everything...