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With an eye on the thousands of civilians caught in the firestorms, the book examines who built and flew the B-29s, and how the Army Air Forces came to firebomb civilian areas in 1945. An uncomfortable, important and thoughtful history by author James M. Scott, a review says.
In 1940, Seattle-based Boeing engineers designed a massive beast of an aircraft. The B-29 Superfortress — composed of 55,000 parts — had a tail three-stories high, enormous propellers and a