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...clear moonlight of Thursday, pathfinder B-29s woke Tokyo up with 100-lb. oil bombs to mark the first target-Shinagawa, in the city's southeastern outskirts. Behind them thundered more than 550 bombers, the greatest force of B-29s yet used, with 4,500 tons of incendiaries. Almost two hours later, when the planes were gone, an estimated 3.2 square miles of Shinagawa, packed with freight yards, airplane-parts factories and war plants, were a raging blaze. Remarked one U.S. officer: "[It is] the most vulnerable combination of productivity, congestion and inflammability to be found anywhere in Japan...
General Bradley had just fallen asleep when the light woke him. Patton was standing in the doorway. He beckoned. Bradley and Patton went into Eisenhower's room and the three men talked for more than an hour. Sometimes it was hard for them to hear each other because the trucks still roared by outside...
...woke up 113 years, three months and eleven days later. At his bedside were a kindly, long-winded physician named Dr. Leete, and his lovely daughter Edith. At first Julian thought a cruel and elaborate practical joke was being played on him. But when Dr. Leete led him to the roof and showed him a transformed Boston, with miles of broad streets, tree-filled squares and majestic architecture unknown in 1887, he turned giddy...
...before Rundstedt's counterattack in the Ardennes, Walton left the First Army to head for Christmas at home, and "it seemed queer to find myself leaving the front actually alive and unhurt after so many days when I woke up in the morning wondering if I would be dead before night." But as soon as he heard of the attack he headed back toward the battles. He was with General Vandenberg all through the terrible days when the pea-soup fog kept our tactical air force grounded, finally got back to the front with General Patton...
...raid wardens from Maine to Miami woke up. Inactive for many months, they now had the word of burly Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, that robomb attacks on the East Coast were not only "possible but probable" within the next month or two. Said Jonas Ingram...