A brilliant synergy between air and sea came close to defeating Japan even before the atomic bombs. Late on the afternoon of March 27, 1945, 102 four-engine Boeing B-29s clattered aloft from Tinian, rising ponderously from the island and climbing slowly away, bound for another night raid on Japan. Since late November 1944, the Superfortresses …
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