Japan 1944-45. Le May's B-29 strategic bombing campaign
Lardas, Mark/Wright, Paul
The air campaign that incinerated Japan's cities was the first and
only time that independent air power has won a war.
As the United States pushed Imperial Japan back towards Tokyo Bay,
the US Army Air Force deployed the first of a new bomber to the
theater. The B-29 Superfortress was complex, troubled, and hugely
advanced. It was the most expensive weapons system of the war, and
formidably capable. But at the time, no strategic bombing campaign
had ever brought about a nation's surrender. Not only that, but
Japan was half a world away, and the US had no airfields even
within the extraordinary range of the B-29.
This analysis explains why the B-29s struggled at first, and how
General LeMay devised radical and devastating tactics that began to
systematically incinerate Japanese cities and industries and
eliminate its maritime trade with aerial mining. It explains how
and why this campaign was so uniquely successful, and how gaps in
Japan's defences contributed to the B-29s' success.
Paperback, 96 Seiten, durchgängig bebildert mit zeitgenössischen
Fotos, Farbillustrationen von Kampfsituationen, Karten und 3D
Operationsdiagrammen, engl. Text
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