Korean War Series Nose Art Okinawa B29455

After knocking out 18 North Korean Communist industries in the early stages of the conflict, USAF B-29 "Superforts" converted their long-range, heavy bomb load capacities towards targets of a tactical nature over North Korea. Today they are used to knock out key rail and highway bridges, blast airfields, and to deliver sledge-hammer attacks on supply storage areas, dock and harbor facilities and marshalling yards. Radar-aiming techniques make the Far East Air Force Bomber Command "Superfort" an ideal weapon to strike enemy frontline positions and troop concentrations. Machine gun fire from the medium bombers have destroyed or damaged about 60 enemy MIGs and numerous propeller driven enemy aircraft since the start of the Korean war. November 1951

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