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...wages on Saipan and Tinian have been fixed at a standard level of 35 to 50? a day, plus food, clothing, shelter. That is enough for the Jap, Korean and Chamorro laborers to buy U.S. cigarets (at 7? a pack),* cloth, soap, toilet paper, shampoo, dark glasses, and occasional candy bars-all covered by rigid price ceilings...
First Japanese civilian communities occupied by U.S. troops in World War II were the Marianas Islands of Saipan and Tinian, last June. There, as everywhere, warfare brought normal economic processes to a shocked and paralyzed stop. But U.S. soldiers build even better than they tear down. By last week the occupied Marianas again had a healthy civilian economy operating, complete with a local variety of OPA price control...
Pilots and air crews drew the public cheers for the dramatic Saipan-based B-29 bombings of Japan. But airmen themselves had a special hurrah for the prop men of the show, the Army's aviation engineers. In building bases for the Superforts, they had performed one of the great engineering feats of World...
Japanese cities and industries had taken B-29 attacks before, but they had come at infrequent intervals, from the remote, gasoline-starved U.S. air bases at Chengtu in China. This time Tokyo was struck from a new and formidable base on Saipan in the Marianas, 1,500 miles from the Japanese capital. At Saipan the high-octane gas comes in by the tankerload. Tokyo could be sure that more and bigger attacks would be made-and on a frequent schedule. If the Japs had any lingering doubt, that was dispelled three days later when a B-29 group roared northward...
...boss of Saipan's newly announced 21st Bomber Command, 41-year-old Brigadier General Haywood Shephard ("Possum") Hansell Jr., had to sweat out the mission on the ground. He was not alone; ground crews had all preparations made for the homecoming and were out strolling uneasily around the runways hours before the big silvery planes were due back. But the returning airmen brought less blood-and-thunder narrative than an hour's mission in Europe might produce...