Bringing the Thunder: The Missions of a World War II B-29 Pilot in the Pacific by Gordon Bennett, Jr. Robertson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really warm and amazing story of a B-29 pilot's WW II experience in the Pacific theatre. The author's real love of flying comes through and his appreciate of his craft (vocation and aircraft!) and appreciation of the views and weather from his high vantage.
After training to be a fighter pilot and ending a bomber pilot the book sets into one bombing mission after another for 30 missions. This could be a recipe for repetition and boredom, but the author manages to make each mission unique and interesting from mysterious "fire balls" to freakish weather to near calamaties. Life in the military and on bases in Guam and Iwo Jima comes to live by this author whoe goes into some length in concluding chapters about the necessity of the bombing campaigns and the atomic weapons used on Japan.
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