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...protect Tokyo from the Superfort raids they expected and feared, the Japs kept sending down medium bombers to pock Saipan's runways and try to keep the B-29s grounded. Last week, in one such thrust, the enemy destroyed one $600,000 Superfortress, damaged two others. But the new Strategic Air Force of the Pacific Ocean Areas, neatly dovetailed with the Navy's surface command, was planning counter-measures to end this nuisance and to rock the Japs back...
Seismographs around the world recorded the shocks as possibly far more severe than those of 1923, when the U.S. sent quick aid to devastated Yokohama and Tokyo. Perhaps because single B-29s from Saipan kept droning over, photographing the results of the latest disaster, Jap broadcasters belatedly conceded that "the quake was severe," although they asserted that "the inhabitants of central Japan enjoyed sitting on Mother Earth's cradle...
...Arms as One. Next day the weight of U.S. air power in the Marianas was thrown into the assault-not on Japan itself, but upon a tiny outpost which was protecting the homeland against heavier B-29 batterings. To Sulphur Island (Iwo Jima) in the Volcano group, midway between Saipan and Tokyo, went a "sizable force" of Superforts-70 to 100 of them, each carrying up to ten tons of bombs...
Boss of the job was handsome, 27-year-old Lieut. Colonel Edward A. Flanders, one of the top 10% in West Point's class of '40. When "Wonder Boy" Flanders arrived on Saipan, the invasion was only five days old and the battle still raged. Aslito Airfield, a 3,900-ft. Jap fighter strip, had been nailed down by U.S. forces only two days before...
Time Out for Fighting. At the same rapid pace other fields began to appear on the rough, forbidding terrain of Saipan. Often the engineers, working within earshot of the Japs, had to take time out to fight. One day Lieut. Henry McCoy killed a sniper by running him down in a jeep...