Crisp-Dooly-Wilcox County GaArchives News.....LT GENERAL JAMES DOOLITTLE May 31, 1945
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CORDELE DISPATCH May 31, 1945
WASHINGTON
LT GENERAL JAMES H. DOOLITTLE, WHO STRUCK THE FIRST AIR BLOW AGAINEST TOKYO, 
WILL HAVE B-29 SUPERFORTS AS WELL AS SMALLER PLANES IN HIS EIGHTH AIR FORCE 
HEN HE HURLS IT AGAINEST THE JAPANESE, IT WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY.
DOOLITTLE, WHOSE CARRIER - BASED ATTACK ON THE NIPPONESE CAPITOL THREE YEARS 
AGO THRILLED THE NATION, NOW HAS MORE THAN 3,000 FLYING FORTRESSES,LIBERATORS, 
AND FIGHTER PLANES IN THE GREAT FORCE WHICH PLAYED SUCH A PART IN TOPPLING 
GERMANY.
GEN. H.H. ARNOLD, ARMY AIR FORCE CHIEF, MADE KNOWN THAT SUPERFORTS WOULD BE 
ADED TO THIS ARRAY.ARNOLD IS HEAD OF THE 20TH SUPERFORT AIRFORCE AND IT IS 
UNDERSTOOD THAT AS SUCH HE WILL RETAIN OVERALL DIRECTION OF THE GIANT PLANES 
WHICH WILL OPERATE UNDER DOOLITTLE.
 THIRD B-29 UNIT
THE ADDITION OF THESE CRAFT TO DOOLITTLE'SEIGHTH AIR FORCE MEANS THAT THREE B-
29 OUTFITS WILL DEAL BLOWS TO THE JAPANNESE, ALREADY OPERATING ARE THE 20TH 
AND 21ST BOMBER COMMANDS.
SECRETARY OF WAR PATTERSON TOLD HIS NEWSCONFRENCE TODAY THAT JAPAN WILL BE HIT 
FAR HARDER FROM THE AIR THAN GERMANY EVER WAS.
COMMENTING THAT THE RECENT SHAKE-UP IN THE JAPPANESE NAVAL COMMAND WAS ANOTHER 
REFLECTION OF THE SET-BACKS JAPAN HAS SUFFERED,HE ADDED.
AMERICAN POWER WILL SEE TO IT THAT NO NEWCOMER WILL DO BETTER THAN HIS 
PREDECESSOR.
IT WAS DISCLOSED MEANWHILE THAT SUPERFORTRESSES BASED IN THE MARIANNA'S DUMPED 
58,000 TONS OF BOMBS.

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