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Three of the proposed big bases are prewar U.S. possessions: the Panama Canal Zone, the Hawaiian Islands, the Aleutians (probable base: Adak). The others: i) the entire Mariana group (Guam, Saipan, Tinian, 12 smaller islands) which taken together may be the U.S. Navy's postwar headquarters; 2) a Central Philippines base, probably on Leyte Gulf, which the Filipinos would undoubtedly grant...
...last week a heavy-jowled, stocky general officer of the U.S. Army Air Forces flew the 100-odd miles back to his Guam headquarters from his B-29 bases at Saipan and Tinian. His aide, waiting with new orders, showed them to the boss. Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay read them without a flicker of expression. Said he, seeming scarcely to open his lips: "File them and we will move tomorrow...
LeMay found more planes and plenty of gasoline on Guam, Saipan and Tinian. He also found plenty of trouble...
Army Air Forces revealed a little more about LeMay's power by identifying four wings of B-29s in his command, two on Tinian, one each on Saipan and Guam. The young brigadier generals in his all-star backfield are Roger M. Ramey, 58th Wing; Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., 73rd; John H. Davies, 313th; Thomas S. Power, 314th...
Yearling's Growth. The yearling Twentieth Air Force was feeling its oats. It had virtually withdrawn from its first, hand-hewn bases in China, and shifted planes from there to Tinian. It had another new wing in the Marianas, operating from a great new field on Guam. The weight of its blows had been stepped up 100% in two months, and would soon be further increased...