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...clear moonlight of Thursday, pathfinder B-29s woke Tokyo up with 100-lb. oil bombs to mark the first target-Shinagawa, in the city's southeastern outskirts. Behind them thundered more than 550 bombers, the greatest force of B-29s yet used, with 4,500 tons of incendiaries. Almost two hours later, when the planes were gone, an estimated 3.2 square miles of Shinagawa, packed with freight yards, airplane-parts factories and war plants, were a raging blaze. Remarked one U.S. officer: "[It is] the most vulnerable combination of productivity, congestion and inflammability to be found anywhere in Japan...
...southeastern front, Marshal Malinovsky was gathering momentum for a push into Bohemia, and south of Bohemia Marshal Tolbukhin was thrusting along the Danube toward Linz. If Tolbukhin can meet the U.S. Third and Seventh Armies in the Danube valley, perhaps between Linz and Regensburg, then Bohemia (and the war industries of Prague and Pilsen) will be cut off from the Nazis' Alpine bastion...
Vienna, main rail hub of southeastern Europe, was the gateway between the food bins and arsenals of Czechoslovakia and the 35 divisions in Italy and Yugoslavia. Even before Moscow's 324-gun salute boomed the Vienna victory, the Russians were off toward more decisive prizes. This week Red columns stood only 30 miles from Brünn, one of the shrinking Reich's last armaments centers. Other columns had turned westward along the Danube and toward Linz. There the Russians would be in position to seal off the eastern side of the Nazis' Alpine redoubt...
Elsewhere the campaign went faster. On Luzon's long southeastern tail, elements of Major General Oscar W. Griswold's XIV Corps, spearheaded by Brig. General Hanford MacNider, landed to capture Legaspi and its airfield. Battle-seasoned doughs of Major General William H. Arnold's Americal Division, with Rear Admiral Russell Berkey's group of Seventh Fleet warships blasting the way for them, stormed ashore on Cebu. Midget submarines, attempting to interfere with the landings, were driven off. The Americals captured Cebu city, second largest in the Philippines (peacetime pop. 145,000) with its fine port...
...another convoy was spotted by the Japs as it pushed into the Sibuyan Sea. This might have been heading for southeastern Luzon. But again the move was of a preliminary nature: Marinduque, a small island within ten miles of Luzon, was quickly occupied. Soon there would be more fields for Kenney's flyers...