A B-29 pilot recalls battling weather fronts, fighters and flak to rain fire on Japanese cities. The crew soon realized the searchlight battery was actually emplaced halfway up 12,000-foot-high Mount Fuji, right at their 6,000- to 8,000-foot attack altitude. It was a perilously low-level mission for a heavy bomber that had been designed expressly for …
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