Blankets of Fire: U.S. Bombers Over Japan During World War II |
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... Eighth Air Force , wrote a strong letter to Spaatz , his boss and old friend , urging against the attack on both ... air forces took part in the operation : Bomber Command , the Eighth , Fifteenth , and the tactical air forces . The ...
... Eighth Air Force , wrote a strong letter to Spaatz , his boss and old friend , urging against the attack on both ... air forces took part in the operation : Bomber Command , the Eighth , Fifteenth , and the tactical air forces . The ...
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... Eighth Air Force Operations , European Theater , 17 Aug. 1942-8 May 1945 , HRA 520.308A , p . 70 ; Gen. Walter Smith to Gen. Handy , 23 Sept. 1944 , LC , Spaatz Papers , Box 16 . 27. Col. James Garcia , " Leaflets Announcing Incendiary ...
... Eighth Air Force Operations , European Theater , 17 Aug. 1942-8 May 1945 , HRA 520.308A , p . 70 ; Gen. Walter Smith to Gen. Handy , 23 Sept. 1944 , LC , Spaatz Papers , Box 16 . 27. Col. James Garcia , " Leaflets Announcing Incendiary ...
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... Eighth Air Force under the command of Lieutenant General James Doolittle and stationed on Okinawa . The latter was to be built up to be about equal in strength to the units based in the Marianas . Lieutenant General Barney Giles was to ...
... Eighth Air Force under the command of Lieutenant General James Doolittle and stationed on Okinawa . The latter was to be built up to be about equal in strength to the units based in the Marianas . Lieutenant General Barney Giles was to ...
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Target for Strategic Bombing | 36 |
Best Bomber | 55 |
Operations | 84 |
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