Rain of Fire: B-29's Over Japan, 1945 75th Anniversary Edition Endorsed by General Curtis E. LeMay USAF

by Charles L Phillips Colonel Usaf Jr

Overview

The remarkable story from a 26 year old Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps, piloting B-29s during the final stages of WWII in the Pacific Theatre.

Beginning on Thanksgiving Day 1944, B-29 fire bomb raids began on Japan from Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
Receiving a Distinguished Flying Cross for piloting the largest planes used in during WWII, his last mission was August 6th, 1945 -- the day of Hiroshima -- the same day he was forced to ditch his aircraft into the sea.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630504410
Publisher:	Xulon Press
Publication date:	06/06/2020
Pages:	248
Sales rank:	677,073
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.52(d)