Superfortress Over Japan

Author : Jack Delano
Publisher : Motorbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780879389765
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superfortress Over Japan written by Jack Delano and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 1996 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superfortress Over Japan Delano, Ostman and Colle Subtitled: Twenty-four Hours with a B-29. The author was there the day the fully-loaded B-29s left Guam for their mission to Japan on July 13th, 1945. Acting on his own, Jack Delano photographed the crews, their environment, and their aircraft, taking great care to write descriptive text which accurately detailed what he saw. Recommended reading! Sftbd., 8 1/4x 1 5-8, 96 pgs., 52 bandw ill.

Author : Curtis E. LeMay
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superfortress written by Curtis E. LeMay and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1988 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Wheeler
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780783557052
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bombers Over Japan written by Keith Wheeler and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profusely illustrated text documents the decisive part played by bombers in bringing about the ultimate capitulation of Japan in World War II.

Author : Curtis E. LeMay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594160394
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superfortress written by Curtis E. LeMay and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Story of the Design, Development, and Deployment of an Iconic Aircraft Among the most sophisticated aircraft flown during World War II, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress was designed to replace the B-17 as the primary long-range bomber of the U.S. Army Air Forces. With its distinctive glazed nose and long, thin wings that provided both speed at high altitude and stability at takeoff and landing, the Superfortress was the first operational bomber with a pressurized crew cabin and featured advanced radar and avionics. Armed with remote-controlled machine gun turrets and a 20,000 pound bomb load, it was the first USAAF bomber capable of mastering the vast distances of the Pacific Theater of World War II. The prototype flew in September 1942 but a series of post-production modifications delayed the bomber's first mission until April 1944. Superfortresses began attacking Japan in daylight with conventional ordnance from high altitude, but their mission was redirected in March 1945, with massive low-level formations dropping incendiary bombs! at night on Japanese cities. The ensuing firestorms, followed by the complete destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs dropped from two specially modified "silverplate" B-29s, forced Japan to cease fighting. Written by the man who led the B-29 into combat, Superfortress: The Boeing B-29 and American Airpower in World War II is an important document of one of the most turbulent times in world history. General Curtis LeMay recalls the early debate about whether or not the United States needed a long-range bomber, how the B-29 was created and produced despite the enormous logistical difficulties of the design, and the decision to conduct fire-bombings against Japan and ultimately drop the atomic bomb. Highly praised when it was first published, this new edition is complete with photographs, a new introduction, and statistical tables.

Author : Xiaowei Li
Publisher : Royal Collins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781487800949
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Superfortress in China written by Xiaowei Li and published by Royal Collins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near the end of World War II, the United States decided to launch a strategic bombing of Japan with both conventional and atomic bombs, using the new B-29 Superfortress. The first strikes were to be carried out from nine airfields to be quickly built around the southwestern city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province. But the real story is how these airfields were built. By mobilizing 500,000 Chinese peasants and workers in three months under trying winter conditions, this incredible feat is largely unknown to the world, even in China. From December 1943, when the order was given to build the airfields, to April 1944 when the first B-29s arrived, this book tells the story of the amazing work done for the B-29s to begin their missions to bomb Japanese targets in Southeast Asia, Japanese-occupied Taiwan, and the home islands of Japan. After the capture of the Mariana Islands by the U.S., new bases for B-29s were constructed there and the work in Chengdu was effectively completed. With month-by-month detailed information of the 49 missions carried out, richly illustrated with historic photographs, and many original documents included, this book is a chronological record of the twelve-month operations of the Chinese people's cooperation with the U.S. 20th Army Air Force to defeat Japan aggression and end World War II.

Author : Robert F. Dorr
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 0760341222
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission to Tokyo written by Robert F. Dorr and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hell Hawks! author Bob Dorr, Mission to Tokyo takes the reader on a World War II strategic bombing mission from an airfield on the western Pacific island of Tinian to Tokyo and back. Told in the veterans' words, Mission to Tokyo is a narrative of every aspect of long range bombing, including pilots and other aircrew, groundcrew, and escort fighters that accompanied the heavy bombers on their perilous mission. Several thousand men on the small Mariana Islands of Guam, Saipan, and Tinian were trying to take the war to the Empire—Imperial Japan—in B-29 Superfortresses flying at 28,000 feet, but the high-altitude bombing wasn't very accurate. The decision was made to take the planes down to around 8,000 feet, even as low as 5,000 feet. Eliminating the long climb up would save fuel, and allow the aircraft to take heavier bomb loads. The lower altitude would also increase accuracy substantially. The trade-off was the increased danger of anti-aircraft fire. This was deemed worth the risk, and the devastation brought to the industry and population of the capital city was catastrophic. Unfortunately for all involved, the bombing did not bring on the quick surrender some had hoped for. That would take six more months of bombing, culminating in the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As with Mission to Berlin (Spring 2011), Mission to Tokyo focuses on a specific mission from spring 1945 and provides a history of the strategic air war against Japan in alternating chapters.

Author : Robert A. Mann
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786482761
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The B-29 Superfortress written by Robert A. Mann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The B-29 Superfortress was for many years a cornerstone of American military aviation. Best known as a bomber, it also served in reconnaissance, as a tanker, and as a rescue plane. It was a crucial tool for American and Allied forces during World War II, Korea and beyond. This operational history of the B-29 gives in-depth information on the career of each plane. A list of the names and serial numbers of the planes, each plane's history from delivery date to removal from service, a description of the B-29's physical characteristics and performance parameters, and a description of the five B-29 variants are provided. Sections of the book give complete mission data for the B-29's World War II service in the China-Burma-India theater of operations, operations over Japan, aerial mining missions and test atomic bombing runs.

Author : Koji Takaki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782005684
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book B-29 Hunters of the JAAF written by Koji Takaki and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B-29!' No other term struck such terror in the hearts of the Japanese public during World War 2 than this single, most-hated name. It was then only natural that the pilots who attempted to shoot these high-flying Boeing bombers out of the skies over Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Kobe should become known as the elite of the Japanese Army Air Force. This book details the exploits of the 'Dragon Slayers' who, flying the very latest singleand twin-engined fighters, exacted a heavy toll on the AAF Boeing bombers using a range of tactics including ramming.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Fly the B-29 Superfortress written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beskrivelse og instruktion vedr. operationer og opgaver for alle besætningsmedlemmer i et B-29 bombefly.

Author : Keith Wheeler
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780809434299
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bombers Over Japan written by Keith Wheeler and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1982 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of Boeing's B-29 superfortress bomber and chronicles America's relentless 1945 aerial assault of mainland Japan