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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Memories of B-29 air crews on big Tokyo raids of May 24-25, 1945

http://www.40thbombgroup.org/memories/Memories8.pdf


8 posted on 05/24/2015 7:33:07 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

Very Good stories that made it real.

Doing a little research on the b29 led me to the silverplate series of b 29. Didn’t realize the mods and experimentation. didn’t know there was a bomb called the “thin man.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverplate


17 posted on 05/24/2015 11:51:58 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Didn’t know about pumpkin bombs either and their role in the 3 plane missions.


18 posted on 05/24/2015 12:14:53 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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