Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bonins, turned on a flurry of attack, bombed new U.S. airfields on Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas. But this preventive did not prevent another scare: three days later the U.S. reconnaissance planes were back over Tokyo. The Japs, who had been panicked by Jimmy Doolittle's token raid in 1942, were in a dither again, even before the first B-29 raid on Tokyo had been staged...
...First raid was one of the shortest the big planes ever undertook: 500 or 600 miles to Rangoon, Burma's No. 1 city, which fell to the Japs in March...
More spectacular was the second India-based B-29 raid: nearly 2,000 miles for a daylight strike at Singapore, the first since Britain's naval bastion fell to the Japs in February 1942. Except for a B-29 night raid last August on Palembang, Sumatra, this was the longest mission ever made by bombers. Tokyo said 30 B-29s were involved...
...stench of dead animals and burst sewer and gas mains. Despite all efforts of Allied airmen to spare the cathedral, one bomb had pierced the roof of the Gothic choir and smashed the empty tomb of Emperor Otto III (11th Century). The U.S. troops who fought toward the air-raid shelter had been trained in the streets of a bomb-riddled town in England...
Last week came the news which surprised no one. Back on duty in the Southwest Pacific as a gunnery instructor, Dick Bong was in battle again. He had led Lightning fighters on a 1,500-mile raid to Balikpapan, the longest fighter operation ever attempted in the theater. Over Borneo 20 Jap planes had jumped U.S. heavy bombers. Bong and his P-38s piled in and drove them off. Instructor Bong's personal score: two Japanese planes...