In August 1944, LeMay transferred to the China-Burma-India theater and directed first the XX Bomber Command in China and then the XXI Bomber Command in the Pacific.

The initial raids were carried out by the Twentieth Air Force operating out of mainland China in Operation Matterhorn under XX Bomber Command, but these could not reach Tokyo.

The B-29s of XX Bomber Command were transferred to XXI Bomber Command in the spring of 1945 and based on Guam.

McNamara established a statistical control unit for XX Bomber Command and devised schedules for B-29s doubling as transports for carrying fuel and cargo over The Hump.

Having returned to operational duties in 1944 after pestering Bomber Command, 25-year-old Gibson was killed along with his navigator, Sqn Ldr Jim Warwick, on a bombing raid on Rheydt ( nowadays a borough of Mönchengladbach ) operating as a Pathfinder Master Bomber based at RAF Coningsby, when his de Havilland Mosquito XX, KB267, crashed near Steenbergen on 19 September 1944.

The B-29 was the key component of the AAF's fourth strategic priority, since no other land-based bomber was capable of reaching the Japanese homeland, but by February 1944, the XX Bomber Command, slated to begin Operation Matterhorn on June 1, had virtually no flight time yet above an altitude of.

He served with the XX Bomber Command under General Curtis LeMay, who would be his running mate in the 1968 presidential race.

VIII Bomber Command, XV Bomber Command, XX Bomber Command and XXI Bomber Command.

XX Bomber Command was part of the Twentieth Air Force and flew missions from China against mainland Japan in Operation Matterhorn.

Under the newly organized XX Bomber Command, B-29 aircraft were received from Boeing's manufacturing plants and new combat groups were organized and trained.

XX Bomber Command and the first B-29 groups were deployed in December 1943 to airfields in India for Operation Matterhorn operations against Japan.

Inactivated before any operational groups were assigned, as XX Bomber Command units were reassigned from India to the Marianas, eliminating need for the command.

: Redesignated: XX Bomber: 20 November 1943 – 29 June 1944

On Okinawa, Eighth Air Force derived its headquarters personnel from the inactivated XX Bomber Command, and Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle assumed command, being reassigned from England on 19 July.

However, XX Bomber Command remained totally dependent on Eastern Air Command for supplies, bases, ground staff, and infrastructure support.

* XX Bomber Command ( 1944 – 45 )< BR >( Kraragpur, India )

Twentieth Air Force XX Bomber Command ( XX BC ) combat elements moved in the summer of 1944 from the United States to India where they engaged in very-long-range Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombardment operations against Japan, Formosa, China, Indochina and Burma.

While in India, XX BC was supported logistically by Tenth Air Force and the India-China Division of the Air Transport Command.

The Twentieth Amendment ( Amendment XX ) to the United States Constitution establishes the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices.

The most important trunk roads were those that linked London with ( a ) the key ports: Dover ( Dubris ), Chichester ( Noviomagus ) and Portchester ( Portus Adurni ); and ( b ) the main Roman army bases: the three permanent fortresses housing the legions ( castra legionaria ): York ( Eboracum ), base of the Ninth Legion: Legio IX Hispana, later the Sixth: Legio VI Victrix ; Chester ( Deva ), base of the Twentieth: Legio XX Valeria Victrix ; and Caerleon ( Isca Augusta ), base of the Second: Legio II Augusta.

20 Corps, 20th Corps, Twentieth Corps, or XX Corps may refer to:

Accompanying them was Major General Kenneth B. Wolfe, the new commander of the XX Bomber Command, which had been reassigned from the Second Air Force as the operational component of the Twentieth Air Force.

The XX Bomber Command operating Strategic B-29 bombers of the Twentieth Air Force, which were attacking Japan in Operation Matterhorn, were forced to move as well, but although this affected their efficiency for a short time, in early 1945 the Twentieth Air Force moved to newly established bases in the Marianas under the command of the newly established XXI Bomber Command.

* Manual: ( 1941 ) Air Publication 1582C Pilot's Notes Lysander III and IIIA Aeroplanes Mercury XX Engine

Guevara felt that such an atrocity by the Bolivian Army and Air Force would be the tipping point in his favour in rallying the miners to his Communist cause, but eventually the miners signed with government-owned mining company, Siglo XX, an agreement which Guevara felt undermined his reason for being there.

The XX Bomber Command ( XX BC ) is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

In June 1945, the XX and XXI Bombardment Commands were grouped under the U. S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific ( USASTAF ), under the command of General Carl A. Spaatz.

In March 1918 Wavell was made a temporary brigadier general and returned to Palestine where he served as the brigadier general of the General Staff ( BGGS ) with XX Corps, part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force commanded by Sir Edmund Allenby, of whom he was later to write a biography.

Eastern Force was abolished and two corps headquarters were formed, XX Corps under Chetwode and XXI Corps under Lieutenant General Edward Bulfin.

The " Eastern Force " headquarters was replaced by two infantry corps headquarters ; the XX Corps, commanded by General Philip Chetwode, and the XXI Corps commanded by Lieutenant General Edward Bulfin.

:" Watson's Force " ( holding centre of XX Corps ' Front

The Allied Egyptian Expeditionary Force, in the XX Corps, XXI Corps, Desert Mounted Corps and Chaytor's Force were composed mainly of British Indian Army infantry and cavalry with British, Australian and New Zealand troops, and detachments of West Indian and Jewish troops and a French and Armenian contingent, launched a series of attacks against the extensive front line.

There was no John XX ; for example, Gibbon refers to the antipope John as John XXII.

Rivera was previously the defensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears and the San Diego Chargers and was a linebacker on the 1985 Bears team that won Super Bowl XX.

Exxon considered this a violation of their trademark, and as a result, Minolta was allowed to distribute cameras already produced, but was forced to change the stylistic ' XX ' and implement this as a change in new production.

Italian XX Corps was to follow the Afrika Korps and deal with the Qattara box while the Italian Littorio Armoured Division and German reconnaissance units would protect the right flank.

Chilton and Evans state that the general acceptance of the authenticity of the James passage lends support to the partial authenticity of the Testimonium in that the brief reference to " Jesus, who was called Christ " in Antiquities XX, 9, 1 " clearly implies a prior reference " and that " in all probability the Testimonium is that prior reference ".

Cowgill was the SIS representative on the XX Committee run by John Masterman, which dealt with double agents working for the Abwehr but controlled by the British.

The intention was to use XX as the main area for scuttling while 36 boats would be towed to ZZ for use as targets for aerial attack.

YY was to be a reserve position where if the weather was good enough, submarines could be diverted from XX to be sunk by naval forces.

However, there was no Pope John XX, owing to confusion caused by medieval historians misreading the Liber Pontificalis to refer to another Pope John between John XIV and John XV.

Bartolomeo Platina, the scholar who was prefect of the Vatican Library, wrote his Vitæ Pontificum Platinæ historici liber de vita Christi ac omnium pontificum qui hactenus ducenti fuere et XX in 1479 at the behest of his patron, Pope Sixtus IV.

When Petrus Hispanus was elected pope in 1276 and chose the papal name John, he decided to correct this error by skipping the number XX.

Because he decided to skip the number XX, the previous Pope named John was Pope John XIX ( 1024 – 32 ).

Super Bowl XX was an American football game between the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Chicago Bears and the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1985 season.

Super Bowl XX was simulcast in Canada on CTV and also broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.

One irony in the Bears victory was that Payton had a relatively poor performance running the ball and never scored a touchdown in Super Bowl XX, his first and only Super Bowl appearance during his Hall of Fame career ( Many people including Mike Ditka have claimed that the reason for this due to the fact that the Patriots defensive scheme was centered around stopping Walter Payton ).

Tulane Stadium was the site of Super Bowls IV, VI, and IX ; while the Louisiana Superdome previously hosted XII, XV, and XX.

The Double-Cross System, or XX System, was a World War II anti-espionage and deception operation of the British military intelligence arm, MI5.

Year 20 ( XX ) was a leap year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

Tiberius was forced to stop his campaign against Maroboduus and recognise him as king and to send his eight legions ( VIII Augustan, XV Apollonian, XX Victorious Valerian, XXI Predator, XIII Twin, XIV Twin, XVI Gallic and an unknown unit ) to crush the rebellion in the Balkans.

He was the first celebrity to go into the Hall, and was inducted at a ceremony prior to WrestleMania XX by Kane himself.