Show Its It's a Beautiful Prospect official U. U S. S sources so still silent on the WITH reported Japanese-reported bombing raids on Tokyo and three other large Nippon cities speculation specula specula- tion as to how the attacks were carried out is rife in this country One suggestion ma made 1 in jn news s dispatches and repeated by Major Paul C. C today's Behind the War News writer on this page is intriguing It is that the American bombers might have bombed J Japan pan on a sort of shuttle shuttle shuttle shut tle flight to China Major suggests the possibility that the bombers might have flown from the U. U S. S base at Dutch Harbor in Alaska 2200 some miles to Tokyo and then continued on to unoccupied unoccupied unoccupied un un- un- un occupied territory in China perhaps 1200 miles further This would mean a total flight of some miles which is within the range of our big bombers Still another and perhaps more likely possibility is suggested by news dispatches dispatches- that the American bombers took off from U. U S. S aircraft carne lying in the Pacific anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- where up ip p. p to 1000 nu miles es off the coast of Japan bombed the Nipponese cities and then flew on onto onto onto to China That would be well within the range of our twin medium bombers This last theory gets partial confirmation from a China dispatch which says the U. U S S. S planes which bombed Japan had arrived safely at their destination This would seem to indicate the destination i was vis somewhere in Cl China ina Also Tokyo radio r reports ports say the bombers were identified as North American B 25 planes which are arem medium bombers with witha a range of 2650 miles There is still some question however as asto asto asto to whether such craft could take could take off from aircraft carriers They might require a longer runway for takeoffs than is possible on a carrier carrier carrier car car- rier deck At any ny rate its it's a beautiful prospect prospect the the e idea of shuttle huttle bombing of Japan by U. U S S. S planes either from Alaskan bases or aircraft t carriers into China With our chain of ai air airbases bases up the Pacific coast to Alaska planes o oi of f all kinds can be easily flown to Alaska and an anthey d they could either take off for China direct from there or be flown to floating air bases base s aircraft carriers in the north Pacific refueled refueled re reo fueled and loaded with bombs and then sent on their way to China dropping some lethal 1 calling cards on Jap Japan n en route And the beautiful prospect doesn't enc en ent d l. l 5 there Once in China these bombers would be beof beof beof of great value They could be flown on t to the Burma fighting fronts or used for bombing bombing bomb- bomb ing lag attacks on Jap strongholds in in occupied China or Jap bases in Formosa Hainan or in Indo-China Indo or or even used for bombing raids on on Japan itself Maybe its it's too beautiful a prospect to be true Maybe its it's wishful thinking But its it's too much to ask the American people people people-or or this writer writer not not to at least that HOPE its it's true |