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...target was an old favorite, Yawata on Kyushu. Over Yawata's steel plants, the B-29s wheeled into the heaviest ack-ack barrage the enemy had ever thrown...
...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...