Word: tankerloads
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...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 to hit Tokyo again, while an India-based mission of Superforts carried...
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