Japan 1944-45: Lemay's B-29 Strategic Bombing Campaign

by Mark Lardas

Japan 1944-45 examines the only time in history that a major war was ended by the use of air power. It shows how the United States used a combination of industrial capability and geography to devastate Japan from the air, and why the Japanese, despite a promising start to their defense, proved unable to prevent the XXIst Air Force from destroying their country.

Since the early 1930s air power advocates had claimed that aerial bombardment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472832469
• ISBN13: 9781472832467
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.1" x 9.7"