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User Review - alco261 - LibraryThingBlankets of Fire is more than just a history of the B-29 bombing effort against Japan during the Second World War. Mr. Werrell opens with a concise history of the evolution of the concept of strategic ... Read full review
Contents
Target for Strategic Bombing | 36 |
Best Bomber | 55 |
Operations | 84 |
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| Title | Blankets of Fire: U.S. Bombers Over Japan During World War II Smithsonian history of aviation series |
| Author | Kenneth P. Werrell |
| Publisher | Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 1560986654, 9781560986652 |
| Length | 350 pages |
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