Word: kobe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...afternoon at the end of March, 16 B-25s were spaced trimly over the aircraft carrier Hornet's flight deck. Off on either side steamed cruisers and destroyers. The next morning, Doolittle told them officially what the mission was, gave them choice of city: Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, Magoya. They were to land at small Chinese airfields, refuel and meet at Chungking. It would be single-file, hit-&-run, each crew on its own. "If we all get to Chungking, I'll throw the biggest goddamn party you ever...
...after the other, hitting targets all over the city. There were big scattered clouds of smoke and flame, some terrific block-long fires. One of the boys said he got an aircraft carrier in construction, that it rolled over right on the ways. Other planes were hitting Kobe, Yokohama and Osaka. They had orders not to bomb the Emperor's palace. Afterwards, from intelligence reports, we heard that more people were killed because of suffocation and inadequate dugouts than by flame or bombs...
...smoke rising from fires on the edge of Tokyo, third largest city of the world (pop. 6,581,000). They saw it in bomb wreckage in Tokyo's famed port of Yokohama, in their great airplane-manufacturing center at Nagoya (pop. 1,249,000), in Kobe (pop. 1,006,000), the Glasgow of Japan. They saw it in the flames from incendiaries that licked through the jerry-built, paper-structure houses where Japan's little men live...
...South China. Flying Fortresses, such as those evacuated from Java to Australia, could easily bomb the great Jap base on Formosa, 300 miles southeast of the Chinese airdrome at Lishui. With flights no longer than Fortresses have made in other battle areas, bombers from Lishui and Chuhsien could reach Kobe or Kyoto in Japan itself...