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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working across the narrow Italian front he and his men were among the first to develop through-the-clouds bombing on a big scale (Belgrade and Budapest were among the principal targets). His Fifteenth went through all the ups & downs of shuttle-bombing from Russian bases, and smashed the Ploesti oil refineries in the bargain. Last year the Fifteenth acted as a strategic supporting air force for the final Russian advances...
...first full-scale raid ever made against the city, more than 200 Okinawa-based Liberators, Mitchells and Thunderbolts strafed and bombed Shanghai's harbor and airfields. No. 1 target, hit with 300 tons of explosives, was Kiangwan airdrome, containing 15 major hangars, four concrete bomber runways, and the biggest concentration of Jap planes in China. Next day the planes went back again. On neither trip were the Americans challenged by fighter opposition...
Douglas MacArthur's announcement that this was just the beginning of full-scale attacks on the city gave the Japs a bad case of jitters. Shanghai is the main port through which they keep their continental armies supplied. To bomb Shanghai was to cut at the very roots of the Jap position in Asia...
...Curran conceded that, as the risks went down, the bonuses would have to go down too. But he and his seamen had no intention of working for a bonus-less scale that began at 34⅜? an hour. So he and N.M.U. last month proposed a new wage scale-starting at WLB's 55? floor -to the 39 lines which are the shipping administration's agents on the East and Gulf Coast. The employers said no and both sides turned...
G.I.s and Tommies at last took over their respective billets, Red Armymen withdrew into the Russian zone, together with wagonloads of German furniture and other souvenirs. At week's end U.S. and British officials froze civilians in their zones so that there could be no large-scale emigration of civilians from the Russian zone...