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Mission to Tokyo : the American airmen who took the war to the heart of Japan / Robert F. Dorr.

Title
  1. Mission to Tokyo : the American airmen who took the war to the heart of Japan / Robert F. Dorr.
Published by
  1. Minneapolis : MBI Pub. Co., 2012.
Author
  1. Dorr, Robert F.

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Description
  1. 328 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "An overview of the bombing campaign against Tokyo in World War II as well as a detailed account of a specific bombing mission from a Pacific island airfield on Tinian to Tokyo and back, told in the veterans' words, including pilots and other aircrew, groundcrew, and escort fighters that accompanied the B-29 bombers on their perilous mission"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  1. United States. Army Air Forces > Biography
  2. 1939-1945
  3. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Japan > Tokyo
  4. World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American
  5. Flight crews > United States > Biography
  6. B-29 (Bomber)
  7. Tokyo (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945
Genre/Form
  1. collective biographies.
  2. Biographies
  3. History
  4. Biographies.
Contents
  1. Wake-up -- Starting -- Warm-up -- Struggling -- Way up -- Soldiering -- The way in -- Striving -- Squabbling -- To the target -- A city ignited -- Thirty seconds over Tokyo -- The way out -- "What's a B-52 Dominator?" -- Flexing the fire -- The way home -- The fire blitz -- Air campaign -- "Destroyer of worlds" -- Mission to Hiroshima.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-320) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain