B-29 Superfortress & Iwo Jima

Iwo Jima: A Hard Won Haven by John Shaw

Iwo Jima as a crucial emergency landing site for crippled bombers returning from missions over Japan. It is estimated that these emergency landing strips saved the lives of nearly 25,000 American airmen during the war. - Google

A B29 Bombing Mission Is Interrupted by Japanese Fighters 💣 Air Warriors | Smithsonian Channel
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Top to Bottom: Kobe, Iwo Jima, Tinian

It is 1,500 miles from Tinian in the Mariana Islands to Kobe, Japan. Iwo Jima is right at the halfway point between them.

B-29 and P-51 : Forging Air Supremacy from Iwo Jima
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Bomber LeMay and the Destruction of Tokyo

Bell-Marietta Georgia, B-29 Assembly Line – 1944

Bomber LeMay strikes again. 80 years ago today, the United States Army Air Forces firebombed Tokyo.

Tokyo Inferno: Operation Meetinghouse, The Deadliest Air Raid In History, Part 1 by  Brad Schaeffer

The bombers headed for Japan in three parallel streams stretching 400 miles across the darkening Pacific sky.

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Tokyo Inferno: Operation Meetinghouse, The Deadliest Air Raid In History, Part 2 by Brad Schaeffer

In a single raid, the B-29 was vindicated and the entire trajectory of the war had been altered.

Tokyo Inferno: Operation Meetinghouse, The Deadliest Air Raid In History, Part 3 by Brad Schaeffer

 "The thing that brought about the determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing by the B-29.”