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    The XXI Bomber Command was a unit of the Twentieth Air Force in the Mariana Islands for strategic bombing during World War II. The command was established...
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    his command. Seeing LeMay's success in improving XX Bomber Command's performance, Arnold thought LeMay could solve the problems at XXI Bomber Command, and...
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  • Japan. VIII Bomber Command, IX Bomber Command, XX Bomber Command and XXI Bomber Command. VIII Bomber Command was the UK-based strategic bomber arm of the...
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    not attacked. This changed in October 1944, when the B-29s of the XXI Bomber Command began moving into airfields in the Mariana Islands. These islands...
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    security measure. Richard H. Campbell, in The Silverplate Bombers, reports that XXI Bomber Command feared that Japanese survivors on Tinian were observing...
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    The XX Bomber Command was a United States Army Air Forces bomber formation. Its last assignment was with Twentieth Air Force, based on Okinawa. It was...
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    assigned to Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortress operations. The XXI Bomber Command had overall responsibility of the B-29 operations out of the Marianas...
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    bombing raid on Fukuoka formed part of a campaign by the USAAF's XXI Bomber Command targeting medium-sized Japanese cities which began in mid-June 1945...
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    Twentieth Air Force (category Units and formations of Strategic Air Command)
    General Carl A. Spaatz. The history of XXI Bomber Command terminated on 16 July 1945. On that date the command was redesignated Headquarters and Headquarters...
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    1944 (11 June – 20 October), the XXI Bomber Command was assigned to Peterson; and the "HQ and HQ Sq" of XXII Bomber Command was assigned 14 October 1944 –...
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