B-29 Superfortress Walk Around
(Paperback)
SS25054

By Dennis M. Savage, Col., U.S. Army (ret.)

Equipped with pressurized cabins for high-altitude effectiveness,

with an electronic fire-control system, and remote-controlled
machine gun turrets, the B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced

aircraft of WWII. Two of those planes, the Superfortresses Enola
Gay and Bockscar, dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in 1945. Yet over all, the B-29 received less notoriety
than its storied elder siblings, the B-17 and B-24, perhaps
because its service areas - the China, Burma, and India Theater
and the Western Pacific - were less publicized than was the war
in Europe. Designed by Boeing, nearly 4,000 B-29s had been turned

out by the time production ended in 1946. Yet today, only a few
meticulously restored and preserved examples of the historic
aircraft survive. A unique look at the plane that ushered in the
nuclear age. Illustrated with over 210 photographs; 80 pages.