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...good brush has a head no more than an inch long, a straight handle, medium-hard bristles of even length, only six tufts on a side...
Against the German weapons were some new U.S. guns and tank-destroyer types still on the secret list, but the basic ground-taker was still the medium Sherman tank, carrying either a 75-mm. gun (outclassed by the 88-mm.) or 105-mm. howitzer. The Allies have nothing of comparable size to the Königstiger, consider such monsters too road-bound to be of great value...
Unnerved Gunnery. Stevens retired beyond ack-ack range and hung around to plot the Japs' course for the Mitchell medium bombers and Thunderbolt fighters then taking off from Mindoro. At 7 p.m. the air-sea battle was on. U.S. air attacks spoiled the Japs' gunnery and left them with no stomach for slow bombardment runs which might have inflicted serious damage on Mindoro installations. Instead, while being chivvied from the air, the Japs steamed up & down the coast, taking pot shots as they went, doing negligible damage ashore...
...protect Tokyo from the Superfort raids they expected and feared, the Japs kept sending down medium bombers to pock Saipan's runways and try to keep the B-29s grounded. Last week, in one such thrust, the enemy destroyed one $600,000 Superfortress, damaged two others. But the new Strategic Air Force of the Pacific Ocean Areas, neatly dovetailed with the Navy's surface command, was planning counter-measures to end this nuisance and to rock the Japs back...
This time it was no hit-&-run attack by lightly loaded medium bombers. The attackers were U.S. B-29 Superfortresses. They cruised in over Tokyo at noontime and kept coming; the attack went on for two hours. Japan later said that 70 planes carried out the operation; the U.S. said only that it was a "sizable task force...