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The new Premier of Japan was ushered in with a bang on 7 April 1945, when for the first time in World lar II land based fighters escorted Boeing B-29's over Tokyo. Two hundred B-29's based in the Marianas, and a hundred North American P-51's pulled a one two over industrial Tokyo that brought twenty-one Jap planes tumbling down. Here, a pilot of one of the Mustangs talks to ground crews after returning from the Tokyo raid to his base on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands.
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