Word: tokuyama
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Billowing Fires. In the two biggest and most destructive attacks so far launched, The Cigar last week sent more than 900 B-29s against Japan. A first force of more than 400 set huge, billowing fires in the naval fueling station and synthetic fuel factory at Tokuyama, the big oil refinery at Otaki, and the oil storage installations on Oshima (biggest in the home islands). They also flogged four airfields on Kyushu and Shikoku. Fighter opposition was timid, but there was heavy flak from Jap warships. Nevertheless, not one of the big bombers was lost...
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