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Japan 1944-45 examines the only time in history that a major war was ended by the use of air power. It shows how the United States used a combination of industrial capability and geography to devastate Japan from the air, and why the Japanese, despite a promising start to their defense, proved unable to prevent the XXIst Air Force from destroying their country.

Since the early 1930s air power advocates had claimed that aerial bombardment alone could defeat a nation. Yet by January 1945, while it had been the key to winning ground campaigns, from the German Blitzkrieg to the Allies' advance across the Pacific, air power had failed to demonstrate their most audacious claim that strategic bombing, by itself, could win a war.

The United States sought to prove it by reducing the Japanese Home Islands' military and industrial capability through bombing alone until they had to surrender.

Download PDF Japan 194445 LeMay B29 strategic bombing campaign Air Campaign Mark Lardas Paul Wright Adam Tooby Paul Kime Bounfordcom Bounfordcom 9781472832467 Books

"Unlike Europe, relatively little has been written about the strategic bombing of Japan. This work fills an important gap by discussing the operational and tactical issues which initially prevented meaningful results and shows how Lemay's surprisingly flexible and non-doctrinaire approach overcame these obstacles. Lemay combined mining the seas surrounding Japan with precision and area bombing to achieve maximum results and efficiency. Still, it required the ultimate weapon to bring Japan to surrender without invasion."

Product details Series Air Campaign (Book 9) Paperback 96 pages Publisher Osprey Publishing (February 19, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1472832469

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Japan 194445 LeMay B29 strategic bombing campaign Air Campaign Mark Lardas Paul Wright Adam Tooby Paul Kime Bounfordcom Bounfordcom 9781472832467 Books Reviews :

Japan 194445 LeMay B29 strategic bombing campaign Air Campaign Mark Lardas Paul Wright Adam Tooby Paul Kime Bounfordcom Bounfordcom 9781472832467 Books Reviews

• This new Osprey Air Campaign Series book focuses on the U.S. bombing campaign against the Japanese homeland in 1944-45, in what turned out to be the concluding months of the Second World War. Author Mark Lardas' thesis is that the air campaign designed and executed by General Curtis LeMay, using the B-29 Superfortress, brought about the final defeat of Japan. The narrative shows how Lemay's combination of precision attack, sea mining and fire bombing so devastated the Japanese industrial base that surrender became essentially inevitable.
  
  That thesis remains controversial all these many years after the war, but the details of the B-29 campaign are worth the reading. The book describes the accelerated fielding of the B-29 and the search for airfields that would bring Japan within range. Those airfields would end up being in the Marianas Islands, but the tactics to maximize effects on Japan still had to be devised and executed. The narrative is backed with an excellent selection of period photographs and graphics and modern illustrations.
  
  The narrative does not address the undoubted effects of the U.S. Navy's sea blockade of Japan nor does it discuss in detail the intense internal struggle within the Japanese government that only just did produce a decision for surrender. Nevertheless, this is a tremendously informative and concise look at an ultimately successful air campaign, and well recommended on that basis.
• Unlike Europe, relatively little has been written about the strategic bombing of Japan. This work fills an important gap by discussing the operational and tactical issues which initially prevented meaningful results and shows how Lemay's surprisingly flexible and non-doctrinaire approach overcame these obstacles. Lemay combined mining the seas surrounding Japan with precision and area bombing to achieve maximum results and efficiency. Still, it required the ultimate weapon to bring Japan to surrender without invasion.
• Excellent book.Many problems in China.Results not worth efforts in China.B-29 air campaighn improved with arrival of Gen. Lemay and taking of islands closer to Japan.
• A very unbalanced book. It is an unexamined paean to the B-29 and Lemay. No differing accounts were consulted even though there is a considerable body of these. No mention whatsoever is made to the horrendous suffering of Japanese civilians, nor of the scale of deaths. It is academic in the worst sense. I don’t expect the highest levels of scholarship from Osprey, but this is unconscionably bad.
• A quick, comprehensive covering of the subject matter covering what happened when Lemay changed tactics from high, inaccurate bombing to low-level firebombing, and burned Japan’s cities down to ashes.
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