Air War Against Japan

Another documentary.

The B-29's on their way to Saipan.

LeMay takes over the bomber command.

A bombing run over Tokyo, still at the time when they were doing high-altitude attacks.

In March, LeMay changed to low-level, nighttime attacks. The precision high-altitude bombing didn't turn out to be so precise after all.

Burned-out areas. The film said that the B-29's “were making Japan bleed internally.

The atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.

Surrender ceremonies on board the USS Missouri.



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