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B-29 Superfortress Units of World War 2
By Robert Dorr
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The ultimate piston-engined heavy bomber of World War II (1939-1945), the first production B-29s were delivered to the 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing in the autumn of 1943. By the spring of 1944 the Superfortress was bombing targets in the Pacific, and by war’s end the aircraft had played as great a part as any weapon in ending the conflict with the Japanese. Indeed, the final dropping of two atomic bombs from the B-29 convinced the Japanese to sue for peace. This book traces the wartime career of the B-29, as the aircraft went from strength to strength in the Pacific Theatre.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book provides one with a number of reminders of other American wars; the inadequate equipment of the early days of World War II in the Pacific, the chain of command issues in the later days of that war, the roles-and-services fights that lingered through Vietnam, and the lousy treatment received by reservists in this country's current military adventures. What is unique about the story of the B-29 in the context of the Korean war is that it was still a time when aircraft could go from cutting edge to obsolete in only a few years time and this happened while jet aircraft had gone from being a sporadically lethal curiosity to deadly dependability. Meaing that the men who took these planes into combat had to cope with the Soviet Mig 15, until what had been the ultimate day bomber of its time had been driven into the night. For these reasons this is one of the better values in this series and certainly well worth reading.