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44. BBKS, Hondo, vol 19, pp 476-78.
45. Ibid., pp 478,480-81.
46. Dai-ichi Fukuinkyoku, Hondd bdkli sakusen kiroku: Kantd chiku (Tokyo, 1950). pp
665-67; Kimata Jiro, Rikugun kdkli senshi: Mar# sakusen kara Okinawa tokkci made (Tokyo,
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47. Sherman, Combat, pp 341-42.
48. Morison, Vol XIV: Victory in the Pacific, pp 57-59; Sherman, Combat, p 342; King,
Reports, p 132; Forrestel, Spruance, p 183; Buell, Warrior, p 38; Sherrod, MC, pp 357-58;
BBKS, Hondo, vol 19, p 484; Dai-ichi Fukuinkyoku, Hondo, pp 667-68.
49. Arnold, Global Mission, pp 290,371; USSBS, Japanese Air Power, pp 1-2. The Joint
Intelligence Committee had considered targeting Japan from the Aleutians, Chengtu, Calcutta,
Broome, Darwin, and Port Moresby, as well as the Marianas. JIC, “Optimum Use,
Timing, and Deployment of V.L.R. Bombers in the War Against Japan,” Jan 18, 1944 (Office
of Air Force History).
50. Futrell, Ideas, pp 77, 79, 84; USSBS, The Strategic Air Operation of Very Heavy
Bombardment in the War Against Japan (Twentieth Air Force): Final Report (Washington,
1946), pp 19-20.
51. Gen Curtis E. LeMay, Mission with LeMay: My Story, with MacKinlay Kantor
(Garden City, NY, 1965), pp 325,329-31,342-43, 345-47,350; Futrell, Ideas, p 84; USSBS,
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52. Arnold, Global Mission p 291.
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54. Craven and Cate, AAF in WW II, Vol V: Matterhorn to Nagasaki, p 539.
55. Roger A. Freeman, Mustang at War (Garden City, NY, 1974), pp 145, 148; Craven
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56. BBKS, Rikugun kdkli nogunbito unyd (3): Daitda sensd shlisen made (Tokyo, 1976),
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154,251,253; BBKS, Hondo, vol 19, pp 547-48,615,621-24. Also see Alvin D. Coox, “The
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Research Memorandum (May 1982). pp 7-10,26-28, adapted by Keith Wheeler, et al.,
Bombers Over Japan (Alexandria, Va., 1982), pp 135-36.
59. USSBS, Strategic Air, pp 20-21.
60. Author’s interviews with Ikuta, Toga, M. Hattori; Watanabe, Nihon, pp 155-57,248-
51; JM 157, pp 11-12,4042, 63, 65, 109-12; JM 17, pp 36-38; Coox, “B-29 Bombing,” pp
20-22; Coox, “Rise and Fall,” p 82; USSBS, Japanese Air Power, pp 2-3.47-48.
61. Author’s interviews with Toga, Ikuta; JM 157, pp 61,63-68,75-78.
62. Author’s interviews with Imaoka, Ikuta, Kono; Watanabe, Nihon, pp 204-5, 259,
268; USSBS, Japanese Air Power, pp 2, 26; Coox, “Rise and Fall,” p 84, citing Minoru
Genda.
63. USSBS, Strategic Air, pp 12-15; Craven and Cate. AAF in WW II, Vol V: Matterhorn
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64. Craven and Cate, AAFin WWII, Vol V: Matterhorn to Nagasaki, pp 615-17.
65. JM 157, p 74.
66. Ibid.
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