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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 War 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 group of crew chiefs and line personnel talk to the pilots of the Mustangs returning to their 7th Air Force base on Iwo Jima in the Bonin Islands from the Tokyo raid. 47th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group |
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