Memoirs of a B-29 pilot
By: Charles R. Reyher
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Military monograph -- no. 75; Military history monograph series (Bennington, Vt.)
Publisher: Merriam Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bennington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781435715097; 9781435715080
Subjects: Campaigns; United States; Air pilots; American Aerial operations; World War, 1939-1945; B-29 bomber; United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Wing (VH), 315th; Biography; Bomber pilots
Table of contents: title: Why the B-29 was built; title: Deming, New Mexico; title: The China B-29s; title: Hobbs, New Mexico; title: Sioux City, Iowa; title: Formation flying; title: Harvard, Nebraska; title: My first look at a B-29; title: Meeting my crew; title: The solo flight with my crew; title: The 315th Bomb Wing readies for Guam; title: The "Chicago Queen" leaves for Guam; title: Northwest Field, Guam; title: Air combat begins; title: The special mission of the 315th Bomb Wing; title: Status of the air war in June 1945; title: Mission planning and getting ready; title: Maximum gross weight take-offs; title: A typical bomb run; title: My first mission, Kudamatsu, a near disaster; title: The 509th Composite Group and the atomic bomb; title: The blockade of Japan; title: The fire bombing of Japanese cities; title: The 7th Fighter Command; title: Air and sea rescue in the Pacific combat theaters; title: More about Iwo Jima and Okinawa; title: The planned invasion of Japan; title: The kamikaze; title: Japan's preparation for an American landing on Kyushu; title: More combat missions; title: The last mission of World War II; title: August 15, 1945; title: MacArthur is appalled; title: Flight to the Philippines for prisoner of war supplies; title: My prisoner of war drop; title: A legal buzz job of Japan; title: My flight to Boiling Field, Washington, D.C., and discharge; title: Post war; title: Addendum; title: Testimony; title: B-29 ditchings at Iwo Jima.