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B-17's wouldn't/couldn't be used to bomb mainland Japan until just before Operation Olympic. They, along with B-24's and Lancaster's could use fields in Okinawa an a couple of Islands scheduled for invasion at the end of August, beginning of September, just south of Kyushu. It would have taken that long to build up the fields and move the Air Groups from ...
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