After a fourteen-hour flight in freakishly clear weather, the F-13 touched down on Saipan with thousands of aerial negatives covering major industrial and aviation plants in the Tokyo and Nagoya regions. A photo lab unit, housed in a Quonset hut, worked around the clock for several days to turn out 7,000 high-resolution prints. These served as the basis for future mission planning. Steakley’s pathfinding flight was of incalculable value to the entire strategic bombing enterprise.
