Word: yawata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were above these, above the ack-ack, and above the effective fighting ceiling of Jap Zeroes. The first high-level operation of the kind for which B-29s were designed (as distinct from medium-altitude night bombing such as the two previous attacks on Yawata and Sasebo) was a success. Only two planes were lost. Total for three raids...
...Target: Yawata. For their opening blow the U.S. heavyweights flew more than 2,000 miles to drop a great weight of explosives on Yawata, "Japan's Pittsburgh," and the sprawling Imperial Iron & Steel Works, source of one-fifth of all Japanese war steel...
...Bombs Away!" Then Root nosed the ship down slightly as thousands of pounds of bombs shot down onto Yawata. Root made a steep left turn. Through the copilot's windows I could see another Superfortress on the bomb-run below us; there was another overhead. Then there was a brilliant flash below...
Besides, this amphibious campaign-of the made-in-America type by which U.S. forces in two hemispheres have conquered historic handicaps-would win bases for U.S. air fleets. If the Americans' monstrous B-29s could come from western China to Yawata, they could come from Saipan (and, doubtless, Guam) to Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe...
...Fleet last week showed what it thought. One day it announced the sinking of a 16,500-ton liner of the Yawata class. The next day it announced the sinking of two supply vessels and three transports, presumably in the China Sea. The next day it announced the sinking of three more vessels off the mouth of Tokyo...