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IMPACT          January 1945           60 Pages scanned

Vol. 3 No. 1

Cover: Strafing at Haha Jima

Articles Inside:

B-29s, Takeoff for Tokyo

We Are Fighting On The Eastern Front, Too
     Red Army is Beneficiary of MAAF
     “Strangle” Operation in Balkans
     Proof of the Believing is in Seeing
     (Bridge Across Danube, Twin Sava River, At Belgrade, Morava River At Kraljevo, Yugoslavia; Pancevo Bridge Hit)

U.S. Buzz Bomb, V1 Tested At Wright Field, JB-2
     What Makes Buzz Bombs Tick

B-17 Picks Up P-47 At 160 MPH In Rescue Test

AAF In The Pacific: 1944 Review
     Pacific Situation 1 September 1944
     Pacific Situation at end of 1944

FEAF Works Out On Japanese Fleet, Sinks Pair Of Light Cruisers
(Panay, Negros)
     13th AF “Long Rangers” Ride Against Japanese BBs
     (Sulu Sea)
     Airfields Hit Too
     (Lahyug, Cebu, Dumaguete Airfield, Negros)

Volcanic Bonins Re-Erupt Under 7th & 20th AF Bombs
     (Libs Parked On Isley Field, Saipan; Chichi Jima, Futami Ko Harbor)

Saipan:B-29 Springboard To Tokyo 
     Building the Base
     From Longest Runway in the Pacific, B-29s on 24 Nov. 1944 Roared Away to Nippon, Opening a New Phase of the Campaign to Wreck Jap War Industry

29s Arrive and Settle Down
     Work And Play
     (Ralph Taylor And Helda Halverson)

Tokyo Rose
     First Flight Over Tokyo Since Doolittle
     (Captain R.S. Steakley)
     Ready, Set, Go
     (Shady Lady Plane, Irving Blumefield, Brig. General Emmett O’Donnell, Maj. Brogan)
     Bombs Fall on Tokyo

Boxscore & Battle Damage
     (Tokyo Raid, Sgt. Sam Bolinsky)
     The Japs Hit Back 
     B-25s at Hong Kong; Low Level Attack Sinks 5 Ships

The GAF
     A Great Air Force Is Great No More. Reasons: Allied Growth, Allied Attacks And Its Own Mistakes
     Fighter Kills
     (Pictures Including Me-262 and Me-163, Cave Factory at Astier)

ETO Escort
     Three-Dimensional Diagrams Show Route and Escort Formations Evolved After Two Years of Rugged Battling with the Hun
     Climb Formation, Battle Formation, Escort Formation

German Flak

8th AF Strikes
     It Is More Rugged Than Ever  
     But Works Goes On, 8th Gets In Greatest Blows
     (Mitteland Canal)
     Aero Engine Plant Hit
     DB Works at Gaggenau Reduced to Shambles
     Ordnance Depot Rocked
     (Hamburg /Glinde)
     Synthetic Oil Hit
     Two Huge Plants Walloped
     (Misburg and Bottrop)

Obituary
     Island of Jaluit Demolished