Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hauls each B-29 could carry perhaps ten tons of bombs, an unheard-of load for any bomber in the vast Pacific theater. All the B-29s returned, but three P-47s of the escort -the first the Superfortresses ever had-were lost to heavy antiaircraft fire at the target: Rangoon's railway yards...
Exploitation. General MacArthur and his Sixth Army commander, Lieut. General Walter Krueger, had chosen Leyte as their target because its capture would seal off Mindanao and the other southern and central Philippine Islands, furnish bases for U.S. planes to cut Japan's supply lines to the East Indies storehouses. Then they had picked for the main assault the spot on Leyte where their armor and fire power could be used most advantageously: the upper half of the eastern shore line which leads down into the fertile Leyte Valley...
Only intermittently did the weather hold back the Allied big bombers, which used their hidden-target instruments when necessary to unload through overcast. With Duisburg and Cologne temporarily shattered, the heavies turned their attention to Hamm, Bonn, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, Mannheim and other supply ganglia serving the West Wall. It was an effort to wall off the Rhineland from the interior-just as, in the Battle of France, Allied air power had isolated the fighting area between the Loire and the Seine...
...Inner Waters. If the U.S. target for the next invasion was the Philippines, there was still one major area in which the Japs first had to be beaten groggy. That was the island chain stretching south from the homeland through the Ryukyus and Formosa to Luzon, and the sheltered waterway lying behind the islands through the East and South China Seas...
Chief news was the description of controls that made it possible to guide the bomb to its target with a maximum error of only a few thousand yards. Carrying 136 gallons of gasoline and burning a little less than a gallon a mile, the bomb has a top range of 150 miles. It can be set to fly at anywhere between 2,000 and 5,000 feet, thus taking advantage of any cloud cover available. Three gyroscopes, driven by bottles of compressed air and assisted by a magnetic compass in the nose (see cut), keep the bomb on its course...