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Japan mainland bombed for 1st time....
Japan mainland bombed for 1st time....
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June 17, 1944
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, June 17, 1944
* B-29 Superfortresses
* Bombing mainland Japan (1st time)
* World War II - WWII
The front page has a banner heading: "Tribune Man Sees B-29s Bomb Japan " with subheads. (see)
Complete with 22 pages, light toning at the margins, small library stamp within the masthead, small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.
wikipedia notes: On 15 June 1944, 47 B-29s launched from Chengdu, China, bombed the Imperial Iron and Steel Works at Yawata Japan. This was the first attack on Japanese islands since the Doolittle raid in April 1942. The first B-29 combat losses occurred during this raid, with one B-29 destroyed on the ground by Japanese fighters after an emergency landing in China, one lost to anti-aircraft fire over Yawata, and another, the Stockett's Rocket B-29-1-BW 42-6261, disappeared after takeoff from Chakulia, India, over the Himalayas (12 KIA, 11 crew and one passenger)(Source: 20th Bomb Group Assn.) This raid nearly exhausted fuel stocks at the Chengdu B-29 bases, resulting in a slow-down of operations until the fuel stockpiles could be replenished.
Category: The 20th Century
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