Saipan Becomes Key B 29 Base in War to Japan
Clark Lee reports from Saipan as five months of American control transform the island into a major B 29 base. Army and Navy cooperation built air fields and supply networks while Japanese forces fade, with the 20th Air Force ready to strike Tokyo from Saipan.
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Japan
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Underground Oxygen Plant Near Sarreguemines Captured
The 26th division engineers report an underground facility near Wittring southeast of Sarreguemines, about one by two miles, likely used to produce liquid oxygen for jet propelled planes and bombs.
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U. S. Third Army
Sarregue Mines
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Stone quarry with tunnel network described as large infantry division space
A fragment notes a stone quarry whose tunnels corridors and rooms could hold a full infantry division and all its equipment, suggesting substantial subterranean space and layout.
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