The B-29 Superfortress Chronology, 1934-1960
| By: | Robert A. Mann |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
| Print ISBN: | 9780786442744 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780786454136 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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The Boeing B-29 Superfortress lived an operational life of only 26 years, but what a life it was.The introduction to this book provides basic information on the physical plane: dimensions, specs, leading particulars and operational usages. Then an exhaustive day-by-day chronology of the B-29 is presented--from the earliest designs in 1934 through thousands of missions and aircraft events in World War II and Korea to the 1960 retirement of the last operational B-29. The book also includes an extensive glossary and three appendices, which provide a discussion of the general anatomy of a mission, a sample of operational voice or radio codes used in 1945, and a guide to (very unofficial) aircraft names.