Rain of Fire: B-29’s Over Japan, 1945 75th Anniversary Edition Endorsed by General Curtis E. LeMay USAF

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The remarkable story from a 26 year old Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps, piloting B-29s during the final stages of WWII in the Pacific Theatre.

Beginning on Thanksgiving Day 1944, B-29 fire bomb raids began on Japan from Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
Receiving a Distinguished Flying Cross for piloting the largest planes used in during WWII, his last mission was August 6th, 1945 – the day of Hiroshima – the same day he was forced to ditch his aircraft into the sea.