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Default Re: Strategic bombing

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Originally Posted by jacobtowne View Post
Actually, the strategic bombing of Japan began after the conquest of the Mariana Islands in mid-1944. It was from airfields on Tinian, Guam, and Saipan that the great streams of B-29 intercontinental bombers flew. Iwo Jima was seen as an emergency airstrip for damaged aircraft on their return flights from Japan.

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