Doc's Friends Boeing B-29 Superfortress N69972
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, military theorists such as Billy Mitchell and Giulio Douhet predicted that the bomber airplane would evolve into a weapon of strategic, war-deciding significance. When World War II arrived, the reality proved more complex, but the B-29 could be said to have proven them right, all but leveling Japan with 170,000 tons of bombs, then finally becoming the delivery platform for the world's first nuclear weapons.
Doc's Friends Boeing B-29 Superfortress N69972
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, military theorists such as Billy Mitchell and Giulio Douhet predicted that the bomber airplane would evolve into a weapon of strategic, war-deciding significance. When World War II arrived, the reality proved more complex, but the B-29 could be said to have proven them right, all but leveling Japan with 170,000 tons of bombs, then finally becoming the delivery platform for the world's first nuclear weapons.