Fire, Fear and Guts: The B-29 and Her Gallant Crewmen

Fire, Fear and Guts: The B-29 and Her Gallant Crewmen
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Страниц
 
304
ISBN
 
0962525324
Издатель
 
Palgrave Macmillan
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Войны и искусство войны

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Book DescriptionAuthor Raymond W. Clanton, pilot and airplane commander, flew 33 missions over Japan in World War II in a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. In his new book, the Fire Raid on Tokyo, Japan, March 9-10, 1945 is depicted with a haunting realism. This is Ray Clanton?s story as well as the spellbinding exploits of several other B-29 flyers that participated in the drama of countless death defying missions of WWII. The narratives are compelling, depicting a graphic portrayal of the air war overthe Empire of Japan and its chilling effect on the airmen who put their lives on the line. The slashing fighter attacks and the Flak Alley jungles will leave you in awe and make you ponder how anyone could have survived such hellish missions. Readers will be stunned by the magnitude of the destruction inflicted on the Empire by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bombers. The B-29 Superfortress was a state of the art flying machine and nothing remotely approached her majestic beauty of...

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