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Firestorm Hell: A Gunner Describes the Superfortress Raid on Tokyo William Carter, a Gunner aboard a U.S. B-29 bomber, lived through harrowing times during missions against the Japanese. Here s What You Need to Know: The Tokyo fire raid marked the beginning of what became known as the fire blitz. When the Boeing B-29 Superfortress crews poured out of the briefing at North Field, Tinian, on the afternoon of March 9, 1945, they were disgruntled. Some were angry. Sergeant William J. “Reb” Carter, the left blister gunner on a B-29, remembered four words: “Heavy losses are anticipated….” The men had just been told they were going to Tokyo with firebombs which they had expected. They had also been told what they were not expecting. The B-29 crews would attack at low altitude, at night, without guns or ammunition. ....
They had to beg a lift from the owner of the Harbour Ferries in his skiff! Then they transferred to a coast guard vessel. How on earth can a city surrounded by water not have a marine unit? VicPD used to have two vessels but never properly operated them with a permanent unit and sadly gave one of them to the fire department. How could the Victoria Fire Department have the money to operate a vessel (actually two) and the VicPD none? Could not the two departments share the vessel? Mount a decal from each department and operate it co-operatively? I understand that the water is under federal purview, but the only RCMP vessel nearby is stationed in Sidney and Transport Canada has no policing authority. ....