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* After 35 missions crews nowadays are relieved and sent home.
The capture of Iwo Jima last 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...
Parodies of TIME writing usually begin like "Outraged was snaggletoothed, bilious, ambidextrous Herman Zilch ..." But nowadays TIME editors do not think highly of backward syntax except as an occasional way of emphasizing a point. Spacesaving sometimes forces us to use a string of adjectives to give a thumbnail sketch, but...
B-29 losses between last November and March were higher than could be revealed at the time. Many planes shot up over Japan were being lost on the way home. Dumbo rescue planes could save most of the men who hit the water between Iwo and Saipan, but could recover...
Men who hit the beach on D-day would hardly recognize their hellish beachhead nowadays. Eight thousand Seabees under Commodore Robert Johnson have built some of the world's longest runways, moved four million cubic yards of earth and even sliced the top off Mt. Suribachi. A Japanese major...