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Show "City of Cedar City0 Drops Bombs on Jap Homeland B-29 BASE, GUAM. May 31 The City of Cedar City has a direct dir-ect representative carrying bombs; to the Ji: panes? homeland. Named the "City of Cedar City" by her crew, this representative is a Sup rfortress based on Guam j which has already participated in missions against industrial and military mil-itary targets in Japan. The crew voted to name their bomber for Cedar City becaus? It ! is the hometown of First Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Kent G. Smith, their pilot, whose wife, Audr.y, lives at 130 ! South Main Street; and whose parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Smitn live at 197 South 3rd West. Th? over-water bemb hauls to Japans are long and hazardous and the men wanted a name typical of their hnrs. The name has been approved by Brigadier General Thomas S. Power, Pow-er, commanding general of ttr . Superfortress elements at this Guam I bn.se. It is being painted on th Superfoit's cylindrical nose on a flag, the pole of which points to Cedar City's location cn a map of the Unit d States. Other members of the crew are: Captain Eugene Mung.r. Jr., airplane air-plane commander, Montgomery, Al-abama; Al-abama; Flight Officer Frederick W. Herrmann, navigator. Long B ach, California; Second Lieutenant Jes-se Jes-se L. Arnold. Jr., bombardier, Hobe Sound, Florida: Flight Officer Joseph Jos-eph D. Ka7ale, instrument specialist, special-ist, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Technical Sergeant Roland R. Boink. flight engineer. Schenectady, New York; Corporal Billy A Eadges, radio operator, op-erator, Gordon, West Virginia; Cor-; poral Edwin R. Brencgar, Jr., top gunner. Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Car-olina; Corporal John E. Saul, right gunner, Alpollo, Pennsylvania; Corporal Cor-poral William T. Leonard, left gunner, gun-ner, Mollne. Illinois; and Corporal Rob rt J McKenzie, tail gunner, Berlin. Pennsylvania. j Introduced as a combat weapon last year, the loifg range, high speed and heavy bomb load of th-Superfortress are no longer military sec-' lets. Neither is it any secret tint' the "City of Cedar City" and her sister planes from Guam and otherj bases on the XXI Bombers Com- mand In the Marianas are shorten- lug the war in th: Pacific by sys- tematically bli.sting industrial and military targets far behind enemy lines. |