For the first time the Empire of Japan is bombed by higher capacity, land-based B-28 bombers, from the Marianas Islands, as opposed to naval carrier-based planes.`

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Subsequent Events:

References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 360.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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