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Published on: 2010-02-10
Released on: 2010-03-02
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WHIRLWIND is the first book to tell the complete, awe-inspiring story of the Allied air war against Japan—the most important strategic bombing campaign inhistory. From the audacious Doolittle raid in 1942 to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, award-winning historian Barrett Tillman recounts the saga from the perspectives of American and British aircrews who flew unprecedented missions overthousands of miles of ocean, as well as of the generalsand admirals who commanded them.Whether describing the experiences of bomber crews based in China or the Marianas, fighter pilotson Iwo Jima, or carrier aviators at sea, Tillman provides vivid details of the lives of the fliers and their support personnel. Whirlwind takes readers into the cockpits and gun turrets of the mighty B-29 Superfortress, the largest bomber built up to that time. Tillman dramatically re-creates the sweep of wartime emotions that crews endured on fifteen-hour missions, grappling with the extreme tedium of cramped spaces and with adrenaline spikes in flak-studded skies, knowing that a bailout would put them at the mercy of a merciless enemy or an unforgiving sea.A major character is the controversial and brilliant General Curtis LeMay, who rewrote strategic bombing tactics. His command’s fire-bombing missions incinerated fully half of Tokyo and many other cities, crippling Japan’s industry while still failing to force surrender.Whirlwind examines the immense logistics and construction efforts necessary to support Superfortresses in Asia and the Mariana Islands, as well as the tireless efforts of engineers to build huge air bases from scratch.It also describes the unheralded missions that American bomber crews flew from the Aleutian Islands to Japan’s northernmost Kuril Islands.Never has the Japanese side of the story been so thoroughly examined. If Washington, D.C., represented a “second front” in Army-Navy rivalry, the situation in Tokyo approached a full-contact sport. Tillman’s description of Japan’s willfully inadequate approach to civil defense is eye-opening. Similarly, he examines the mind-set in Tokyo’s war cabinet, which ignored the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, requiring the emperor’s personal intervention to avert a ghastly Allied invasion.Tillman shows how, despite the Allies’ ultimate success, mistakes and shortsighted policies made victory more costly in lives and effort. He faults the lack of a unified command for allowing the Army Air Forces and the Navy to pursue parochial goals at the expense of the larger mission, and he questions the premature commitment of the enormously sophisticated B-29 to the most primitive theater in India and China.Whirlwind is one of the last histories of World War II written with the contribution of men who fought in it.With unexcelled macro- and microperspectives, Whirlwind is destined to become a standard reference on the war, on multiservice operations, and on the human capacity for individual heroism and national folly. aero.or.jp zosho-list 025 ---1982 100 Planes 100 Years - The first century of aviation. Book List: American War Brides Experience Book List: World War II American War Brides ... Melancholy Baby: The Unplanned Consequences of the G.I.s' Arrival in Europe for World War II Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities World War II Database 6. Anonymous says: 18 Mar 2010 02:31:09 PM Yes I would say we had to do it. It has been reported that Japan and maybe Germany too were fairly close to testing their ... sf ... Bombing of Tokyo - Wikipedia The Bombing of Tokyo ( Tkydaiksh?) often referred to as a series of firebombing raids was conducted as part of the air raids on Japan by the ... B-29 Superfortress - World War Photos Boeing B-29 Superfortress Evolved as a super bomber to bomb the Axis powers into submission the Boeing B-29 Superfortress was the outcome of a prolonged ww2 world ... Boston Symphony Orchestra Musicians List - Stokowski Boston Symphony Orchestra Musicians Roster. A Listing of All the Musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Artur Nikisch and the Boston Symphony 1891 in the old ... Military history of the United States during World War II ... The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. At its core was the ... Luftangriffe auf Tokio Wikipedia Das vorrangige Ziel der Luftangriffe war die Zerstrung der Industriebetriebe von Tokio. Die Absicht dieser Angriffe war die Schwchung der japanischen ... Historical Movies in Chronological Order - Vernon Johns MOVIES (HISTORICAL FILMS) IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER (UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- I'm watching and writing about these movies as fast as I can but it is going to take awhile.)
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