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How America Built Its Massive Fleet of B-29 Superfortress Bombers
The first 16 of the more than 600 Superfortresses built at a plant in Georgia were assembled mostly by hand in early November 1943.
Here s What You Need to Know: At its height, the plant in Marietta, Georgia employed 28,000 workers.
When Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay, the hard-driving commander of the Twentieth U.S. Air Force based in Guam, decided to change tactics in early 1945 to boost the effectiveness of the B-29 Superfortress, it was the Bell Aircraft plant in Marietta, Georgia, that ultimately provided him with the stripped-down bombers that played such a key role in ending the war in the Pacific. ....

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