[PeterPrinciple]

VOLCANO ISLANDS: Thirty USAAF Seventh Air Force B-24 Liberators operating in two separate formations, bomb airfields on Iwo Jima; airfields are hit again on the night of 10/11 January by B-24s flying snooper missions from Guam.

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Again the target is the airfields. why is it so difficult to put the airfield out of commission?

I notice these are mostly activity reports that do not show results of missions. Would results have been reported else where?

[okie01]

Again the target is the airfields. why is it so difficult to put the airfield out of commission?

In WW II, both sides regularly targeted airfields -- but to little effect.

Cratered runways could be readily re-filled, re-built and returned to service. The only meaningful targets were the planes and their crewmen -- which, after the early stages of the war, were dispersed