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From Singapore to Formosa to Tokyo, meanwhile, the B-29s flying from India, China and Saipan gave the enemy no rest. Every arm of air and sea-air warfare was swinging heavy and repeated blows to keep the enemy reeling while the landing on Luzon was made good...
...during the fall of the same year that Comdr. Tully went to the destroyer U.S.S. Norman Scott as Executive Officer. Having completed missions in the invasion of Saipan and Guam, the Scott was covering the landings on Tinian when Jap shore batteries scored hits with six 6-inch shells...
...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...
...Superfortress route between Saipan and Tokyo were hornets' nests of Jap fighters and bombers: a surface task force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet steamed in and battered these airfields and harbor facilities in the Bonin Islands with big guns. The Third Fleet's carrier planes hammered Okinawa and Formosa...
Besides bombs, the Japanese now have OWI radio propaganda to dodge. Beset by a new station on Saipan, near enough to reach ordinary sets on standard wavelengths, Tokyo last week countered with a bedtime message: "Let's turn off the radio," cooed an announcer, "as soon as [our] broadcast is over." He pointed out that his little listeners could thus "restore their vitality ... by going to bed as soon as possible," and could make their radio sets last longer "by giving them rest." (Just to make sure, Japan tried to jam the Saipan broadcasts...