The B-29 Superfortress Chronology 1934-1960

<p> The Boeing B-29 Superfortress lived an operational life of only 26 years but what a life it was.</p><p>The introduction to this book provides basic information on the physical plane: dimensions specs leading particulars and operational usages. Then an exhaustive day-by-day chronology of the B-29 is presented--from the earliest designs in 1934 through thousands of missions and aircraft events in World War II and Korea to the 1960 retirement of the last operational B-29.</p><p> The book also includes an extensive glossary and three appendices which provide a discussion of the general anatomy of a mission a sample of operational voice or radio codes used in 1945 and a guide to (very unofficial) aircraft names.</p>