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...story of the B-29 Uncle Tom's Cabin, which flew to Tokyo on Dec. 27, and never returned. Other Superforts saw the Cabin, six miles above the target, rammed and ripped wide-open by a Jap fighter. Other Japs pressed in for the kill, but the staggering bomber fought them off and righted itself 3,000 feet below the formation, only to be crashed by another fighter. The Cabin pulled out again at 5,000 with one machine gun still firing; a third Jap suicide rammer sent it plummeting into Tokyo Bay in a pall of black smoke...
...bright, moonlit night when antiaircraft guns around Yontan airstrip in west central Okinawa burst into their barking din. A brisk enemy air raid was on. Suddenly, to the amazement of Marine pilots and mechanics, a Japanese twin-engined bomber, its wheels still retracted, glided in and scraped down the runway to a fairish belly landing. This was the debut of the Giretsu branch of Japan's fantastic suicide warriors...
...from the north. . . . Five-inch guns shot one down 1,000 yards off and another close aboard. Two circled to the stern and No. 3 [gun] mount shot both down, one so close we got our first casualty-one man killed. A moment later a Val [Japanese dive bomber] exploded just off the starboard quarter, injuring several men. A plane from the port bow grazed the No. 3 mount and exploded near enough to put one gun out of action...
...their arctic flying suits, the British-Canadian crew of the converted Lancaster bomber looked like men from Mars. Every available inch of their 37-ton, four-engine plane, the Aries,* was filled with scientific equipment, much of it secret. When they left Whitehorse in the Yukon one day last week and landed 20 hours later at Shrewsbury, England, on the last lap of a two-week tour of Arctic exploration, they had accomplished more than many an explorer of a generation ago did in a lifetime. They had made three trips into the Arctic, found the present accurate location...
...March 19. Fifty miles off the coast of Japan, Task Force 58 was launching an air assault against Shikoku and Kyushu when a Jap bomber dropped out of the low overcast, rocketed in over the bow of the 27,000-ton carrier Franklin ("Big Ben") and swept the length of her flight deck. Not until too late did antiaircraft crews get their guns on the raider. From the Jap's belly two 500-lb. bombs plummeted down...