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3-5 May 2 missions Industrial center blockade 195 181 0 0 1,549 1,422 3. 13-27
May 8 missions NW Honshu- Kyushu Blockade 209 194 2 1 1,425 1,313 4. 7
June-3 July 14 missions NW Honshu- Kyushu Blockade 404 378 0 1 3,848 3,542
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3-5 May 2 missions Industrial center blockade 195 181 0 0 1,549 1,422 3. 13-27
May 8 missions NW Honshu- Kyushu Blockade 209 194 2 1 1,425 1,313 4. 7
June-3 July 14 missions NW Honshu- Kyushu Blockade 404 378 0 1 3,848 3,542
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Air University, 1980), 42-43; Johnson and Katcher, Mines against Japan, 16;
Memo for Under Secretary of War Patterson from AC/AS, Plans (Kuter), "Blockade
of Japan by Aerial Mining," 1 Nov. 1944, HRA 118.04V-1; Chilstrom, "Test for
Joint ...
Air University, 1980), 42-43; Johnson and Katcher, Mines against Japan, 16;
Memo for Under Secretary of War Patterson from AC/AS, Plans (Kuter), "Blockade
of Japan by Aerial Mining," 1 Nov. 1944, HRA 118.04V-1; Chilstrom, "Test for
Joint ...
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Aircraft in Establishing Mine Blockades in Principal Japanese Seaports, 7 July
1944, RG 18, 20AF NF, B-29 Mining Plans S-2. 14. Commander in Chief, U.S.
Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Area to Commanding General, 20th Air Force, "B-
29 ...
Aircraft in Establishing Mine Blockades in Principal Japanese Seaports, 7 July
1944, RG 18, 20AF NF, B-29 Mining Plans S-2. 14. Commander in Chief, U.S.
Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Area to Commanding General, 20th Air Force, "B-
29 ...
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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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