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[ananda]

31. That is right.

It was a small carrier destroyed by kamikaze.

The fliers in the air, like my dad, had to land
on the beachhead in Saipan, which MacArthur
had just taken.

They flew missions from there for two weeks
and were then sent home because the planes
couldn't be maintained there.

Then Truman called them back to Saipan to
fly a mission to firebomb Tokyo, which didn't
happen because he decided to nuke the two
other cities instead.

Then they all went home for good.