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1 Floatplane, 4 Guns, 1 B-29: Japan’s Last Aerial Victory Over the Pacific
In 1944, a Japanese Kawanishi N1K2 floatplane intercepted a B-29 Superfortress in one of the strangest dogfights of the war. Using only four 20mm cannons, the lone pilot managed to cripple the bomber ...
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B-29 Strategic Operations against Japan Part 2: Island Operations
Originally struggling to achieve success in the China Burma India Theater, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress made its mark once ...
Suffering an arduous start in the CBI Theater, the B-29 would initially struggle to prove its worth, the victim of teething problems from its rapid development and production, along with supply issues ...
In August of 1945, B-29s dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending WWII in the Pacific theatre.
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