Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the carrier-based Doolittle raid of two years ago, this was not to be a single strike at Japan. The long-range planes flew from bases that had been painfully carved out of the fields of western China by nearly 500,000 coolies. Except for one smaller shakedown operation, the attack was the first mounted by the new, world-ranging U.S. Twentieth Army Air Force. But it would not be the last, and Japan knew...
...bare bones of the official announcements, U.S. newsmen added their accounts. Eight correspondents and three photographers flew on the raid, among them TIME'S Harry Zinder, whose B-29 crash-landed in a China battle zone on the return trip (see facing page...
Missing after the first Superfortress raid on Japan, TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder and the crew of a wrecked B-29 turned up later last week at their base. Zinder cabled...
...fool. He is a single-minded man who has dedicated himself to warfare. He is a battleship man by upbringing, but he is no "battleship admiral." During the raid on Truk, airmen privately and bitterly complained because he sent battleships in to finish off Jap warships which had already been damaged by dive bombers. Airmen thought they should have had the glory of the final kill...
...recent months with the Army's big new B-29 bomber, but to the public at large the Superfortress was a nebulous thing of mystery and hope. What the people waited for was the B-29's baptism in combat. That came last week, with a dramatic raid on Japan's steel industry (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Then the War Department allowed Boeing to tell nearly everything about its current prize package...