Kenneth P. Werrell

BLANKETS OF FIRE: U.S. Bombers over Japan during World War II (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series)

Smithsonian, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. xvi+ 349 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. The author integrates the doctrine of strategic bombing with WWII wartime experiences in Europe and Asia, and evaluates the performance of the B-29 and its crews. He shows that U.S. bombing of Japan did not become fully effective until strategy, under Curtis LeMay, shifted from daylight raids to nighttime incendiary bombing of Japan's "paper cities'. In all, sixty-six cities were burned, killing more civilains than the atomic attacks on Hirshima and Nagasaki. Fine / fine. Item #E24099
ISBN: 9781560986652

Price: $14.00