I am currently building missions for the BPF Operation Iceberg Oolong, the attacks on Formosa airfields Shinchiku, (Hsinchu-Chinese) and Matsuyama, at Taipei.
The US had been bombing Formosa since October 1944, and the IJA kept rebuilding their airfields, launching kamikaze raids on USN at Okinawa.
Spruance and Halsey wanted the airfields, shipping, manufacturing and oil supplies destroyed and did not have USN, USAAC assets available.
He assigned the missions to BPF-TF57 as Operation Iceberg Oolong.
I ran across this in my research, some bombing runs by USAAC B-24s in October 1944 and January 1945.
http://ww2db.com/facility/Shinchiku_Airfield/
http://ww2db.com/facility/Matsuyama_Airfield/
Very interesting information and photos.
The US had been bombing Formosa since October 1944, and the IJA kept rebuilding their airfields, launching kamikaze raids on USN at Okinawa.
Spruance and Halsey wanted the airfields, shipping, manufacturing and oil supplies destroyed and did not have USN, USAAC assets available.
He assigned the missions to BPF-TF57 as Operation Iceberg Oolong.
I ran across this in my research, some bombing runs by USAAC B-24s in October 1944 and January 1945.
http://ww2db.com/facility/Shinchiku_Airfield/
http://ww2db.com/facility/Matsuyama_Airfield/
Very interesting information and photos.