Final Assault on the Rising Sun: Combat Diaries of B-29 Air Crews over Japan - Hardcover

Final Assault on the Rising Sun: Combat Diaries of B-29 Air Crews over Japan

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Signed and inscribed by the author to another member of the 73rd Wing at a reunion in 1996. VERY GOOD in a very good dust jacket. No marks noted. 224 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm. . . . . . . . . Final Assault on the Rising Sun: Combat Diaries of B-29 Air Crews over Japan is a 1995 large-format hardcover collection of first-person accounts by U.S. Army Air Forces crewmen who flew B-29 Superfortress missions against Japan in 1944-1945. Compiled as a unit-style history, it interweaves diary entries, mission narratives, and personal reminiscences to document the day-to-day realities of long-range strategic bombing - training, base life in the Marianas, grueling night and daylight raids, flak and fighter opposition, mechanical failures, and the psychological strain of repeated missions over heavily defended targets. The volume runs about 224 pages and is illustrated, typically with period photographs, crew shots, and aircraft images that help place the narratives in visual context. Issued by Specialty Press in a relatively small printing, it has become a useful reference for aviation historians and collectors interested in B-29 operations, offering granular crew-level perspectives that complement more formal histories of the strategic air campaign against Japan. Artikel-Nr. 2602260010

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