Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this mission, a "medium-sized" force of the great bombers flew from a base in the Southeast Asia Command near the equator, about 1,800 miles from the target. (The only Allied fields meeting these specifications are on Ceylon.) The blow was a bitter one for the Japs. Scorched by the Dutch, the refinery had been restored to something like its old capacity (18,000,000 barrels a year), reputedly was turning out aviation fuel as well as other petroleum products desperately needed by the enemy. Superfortressmen reported they had hit it fairly and squarely, thought it might take...
Tinder-Hearted City. The same night, from a base in China, another force of Superfortresses made the first incendiary raid on Japan. Target: Nagasaki. Flames spread like wildfire through its flimsy wood and paper buildings while demolition bombs thumped down among sea port, naval-station and manufacturing installations...
...what seems to be a Luftwaffe officers' mess. In the ensuing friendly shop talk, he reveals that a head cold is the reason his mission commander has been dropped from the projected flight. Colds are serious to flyers only when they don oxygen masks. The only prime German target separated from Naples by oxygen-mask mountain altitudes is Munich. When U.S. bombers head for Munich's Hermann Goring oil works, Messerschmitts are waiting for them...
Half a Load. The major secondary target for planes which for any reason had to pass up Anshan was Tangku, the port of Tientsin in northernmost China. The Monsoon was past Tangku on the way home when it was discovered that half her bomb load had stuck in the bay. A target of last resort had been specified: the airfield at Chenghsien. The nearby railway junction had already been bombed by a diversionary force of B-29s. The Monsoon knocked out the airfield control tower with its leftovers and breezed back to base...
...Secretary Hull's shots hit the target? Near the center of it was Juan Domingo Perón, Vice President, Minister of War, Secretary of Labor and Welfare, master of President Farrell and dominant figure in the military government. Perón has apparently swung from extreme to moderate nationalism. That is, as a devout Argentine-firster, he no longer considers either hatred of the Yanquis or bundling with the Axis indispensable to his career. Hull's blast inferentially called for a governmental house cleaning of all pro-Axis personalities, a national house cleaning of all German business...