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The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20100402225313/http://home.att.net:80/~sallyann6/b29/56years-4408.html

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The basic chronology and general information on these pages is a composite of entries excerpted from Air War Pacific Chronology: Americas Air War Against Japan in East Asia and the Pacific 1941-1945 by Eric Hammel (Pacifica, CA: Pacifica Press, 1988 ISBN 0-933353-26-6)
and, USAAF Chronology: Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces by Jack McKillop (Piscataway, NJ).
Also on line atRutgers University.

1 August 1944 (page 418)

MARIANAS:
Organized Japanese resistance on Tinian ceases.

PACIFIC OCEAN AREA:
Army Air Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas is activated at Hickam Field, Oahu and LGen Millard F. Harmon is named commanding general. The new command is operationally responsible to the CinC POA, and administratively responsible to U.S. Army Forces Pacific Ocean Area.

LGen Harmon is also acting as deputy commander of the Twentieth Air Force, under the USAAF chief of staff, Gen Henry H. Arnold. AAFPOA assumes operational control of the Seventh Air Force.

2 August 1944 (page 419) No actions reported.

3 August 1944 (page 419) No actions reported.

4 August 1944 (page 420) No actions reported.

5 August 1944 (page 420) No actions reported.

6 August 1944 (page 421) No actions reported.

7 August 1944 (page 421) No actions reported.

8 August 1944 (page 421)

MARIANAS:
Effective organized Japanese resistance on Guam ceases.

9 August 1944 (page 421) No actions reported.

10 August 1944 (page 423)

EAST INDIES:
During the night of 10-11 August, 31 B-29's dispatched from the 58th BW at Chengtu, China staging through China Bay, Ceylon attack an oil refinery at Palembang, Sumatra. Also, eight B-29's sow mines in the Moesi River near Palembang. Three B-29's attack targets of opportunity.

(The flight from Ceylon to Palembang and back is the longest single-stage flight undertaken by USAAF combat aircraft in WWII 3,900 miles. One B-29 is lost due to fuel shortage.

JAPAN:
During the night of 10-11 August, 24 B-29's dispatched from the 58th BW based at Chengtu mount individual attacks against the Nagasaki urban area; three B-29s attack targets of opportunity. (B-29's claim one Japanese fighter shot down - this is the first confirmed shoot-down by B-29's during the war)

11 August 1944 (page 424) No actions reported.

12 August 1944 (page 424) No actions reported.

13 August 1944 (page 424) No actions reported.

14 August 1944 (page 425) No actions reported.

15 August 1944 (page 425) No actions reported.

16 August 1944 (page 426) No actions reported.

17 August 1944 (page 426) No actions reported.

18 August 1944 (page 427) No actions reported.

19 August 1944 (page 427) No actions reported.

20 August 1944 (page 428)

JAPAN:
Sixty-one of seventy-five B-29's of the 58th BW dispatched from Chengtu bomb the Imperial Iron and Steel Works at Yawata during the day with 96 tons of bombs; six B-29's attack secondary targets and targets of opportunity. B-29's claim 17 Japanese aircraft shot down. (Fourteen B-29's are lost in combat or due to operational accidents, including one from which the crew bails out over Soviet Territory. Two of the B-29's lost over Yawata are downed as a result of intentional ramming by a Ki-45. Among the many airmen lost is Col. Richard H. Carmichael, the 462nd BG commanding officer.)

During the night of 20-21 August, ten of 13 B-29's taking off late from Chengtu attack the Yawata Iron Works; five attack secondary targets.

21 August 1944 (page 428)No actions reported.

22 August 1944 (page 429)No actions reported.

23 August 1944 (page 429)No actions reported.

24 August 1944 (page 430)

MARIANA ISLANDS:
The advanced air echelon of BGen Emmet O'Donnell Jr.'s 73rd BW headquarters arrives by air at Isley Field, Saipan with B-29's. (This is the first 20th AF contingent to arrive - the ground echelon arrives by 16 Sep)

25 August 1944 (page 430)No actions reported.

26 August 1944 (page 430)No actions reported.

27 August 1944 (page 431)No actions reported.

28 August 1944 (page 431)

ZONE OF THE INTERIOR:
BGen Haywood S. Hansell, Jr. assumes command of the XXI BC at Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, Colorado. BGen Lauris Norstad succeeds Hansell as Chief of Staff of the Twentieth Air Force.

29 August 1944 (page 432)

INDIA:
MGen Curtis Emerson LeMay assumes command of the XX BC at Kharagpur India after BGen La Verne G. Saunders is seriously injured in a non-operational flying accident.

30 August 1944 (page 433)No actions reported.

31 August 1944 (page 433)No actions reported.