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...page 26 you will find excerpts from White's story of what he saw from the lead bomber as it dropped its fragmentations from almost suicide level on the Jap bombers massed along the runway just below. If the raid had failed of complete surprise, half the American flyers might have been shot down. Actually everything went off with such perfect precision that "all it cost us was the gasoline...
...Washington told him to get into the Army - or else. "I don't want to be a general," Chennault sighed, "but I can't fight without planes." For a while he almost had to fight without them anyway: in the summer and fall of 1942 his bomber force sometimes averaged five B-25s, his fighter force was down to 20 P-40s, and for months he never had more than 80 planes fit for combat...
...plane bomber force in China, operating efficiently, would consume nearly 70,000 tons a month of gasoline, bombs and ammunition. One hundred fighters would consume some 5,000 tons more...
Colonel Joseph B. Wells had to shout to TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White; thunderous twin engines were driving their B-25 bomber over the turbulent waters of the South China Sea. Wells pointed a finger at Shinchiku airdrome on Formosa, one of Japan's great nests of air power and transshipment centers. The only newspaperman to accompany "the most dangerous mission ever attempted by fighters and bombers of the Fourteenth Air Force" White cabled: "Surprise and good navigation were vital to success. The mission was to be at almost suicidal level-even five minutes warning would give the Zeros...
Three days later, Hart, who detests flying, left on a 28,000-mile trip by bomber. Into two months he had to pack the experience of 15. Using a fake name and wearing a phony uniform, he tasted basic training in Mississippi, sampled college training in Missouri, took classification tests in California. He wound up his training when the nose of his companions' ship "pointed south-for combat...