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...Just before midnight on Friday, Aug. 10, 350 pilots and crewmen of Brigadier General Roger Ramey's 58th Bombardment Wing gathered in the briefing room on Tinian. A group newly named Kagu-tsuchi (for a Japanese fire god) was scheduled to make a strike; for many of the B-29 crews, it would be their 35th mission-all they needed to complete a tour and get a U.S. leave...
...damaged a Dumbo and driven off a submarine. Shore guns killed another fighter pilot only 100 yards off Chichi Jima in a Higgins boat after it had been dropped to him. But, between June 1944 and June 1945, the Navy alone saved 2,100 of its pilots and crewmen...
...March provided an ideal Dumbo base. Nowadays the rescue planes leave for their assigned areas as regularly as the bombers and fighters take off. The first boat, containing a "Gibson Girl" hand-cranked radio, was dropped May 30 to the crew of a plane shot up over Yokohama. Four crewmen drowned but seven were saved. With Okinawa also in U.S. hands a downed airman has an excellent chance of survival, even on the shores of Japan-unless Jap soldiers or fanatical civilians catch him first...
...wooden shed alongside, crewmen helped stevedores heave cargo aboard the Hamonic. A few of the passengers gawked at them from the top deck. Others were at breakfast in the long salon, and many were still in their staterooms. Suddenly a truck on the pier backfired and burst into flame. When the fire reached the gasoline tank, a rolling blaze swept up the ship's side, billowed over the deck...
...cost of 5,445 Marine lives, had already saved 11,000 6-29 crewmen...