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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 14, 1944

Page

8

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.

Clark Lee International News Service Saipan Japan Cedar Rapids Garapan INS Staten Island Island 20Th Air Force 21St Bomber Command Army Navy Army Air Transport Command Nimitz Seventh Air Force Marshall Bonin Islands

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.

U. S. Third Army Sarregue Mines 26Th Division Wittring

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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