Korea 1950-53: B-29s, Thunderjets and Skyraiders Fight the Strategic Bombing Campaign
Korea 1950-53: B-29s, Thunderjets and Skyraiders Fight the Strategic Bombing Campaign A spectacularly illustrated new history and analysis of the strategic bombing campaign in the Korean War, which…
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Korea 1950-53: B-29s, Thunderjets and Skyraiders Fight the Strategic Bombing Campaign
A spectacularly illustrated new history and analysis of the strategic bombing campaign in the Korean War, which saw the last combat of America's legendary B-29s.Just five years after they defeated Japan, at the dawn of the jet age, the most advanced bomber of World War II was already obsolescent. However, it was a challenging campaign, in which the strategy was not merely military but political. But the legendary war-winning Superfortresses had one more war to fight, in the strategic air campaign against North Korea.The bombers' task was to destroy North Korea's facilities for waging war, from industry and hydroelectric dams to airfields and bridges.
In this fascinating book, airpower scholar and former RAF pilot Michael Napier explains how the campaign was fought, and how the technique of 'bombing to negotiate' that would become notorious in Vietnam was already