The new Premier of Japan was ushered in with a bang on 7 April 1945, when for the first time in World War II land based fighters escorted Boeing B-29's over Tokyo. Two hundred B-29's based in the Marianas, and a hundred North American P-51's pulled a one two over industrial Tokyo that brought twenty-one Jap planes tumbling down. Here, the sleek Mustangs have returned from their mission and a crowd gathers to get first-hand information from the pilots. This raid was the climax for which the Marines paid so dearly on Iwo Jima in the Bonin Islands where these fighters are based. James VandeHeys 78th Fighter Squadron P-51 #100, Jeanne VIII, which was named after his wife.