congrats to your Dad! My Dad is going to turn 96 in November. He
served in WW2 as a side gunner on a B-29 flying missions over Tokyo dropping
firebombs in the spring and summer of 1945. He had just turned 19 at the time.
Right before he arrived in Saipan in March 1945, his bomb group had been suffering horrible losses attempting to bomb Tokyo at high altitude. They were
being pummeled by flak and enemy fighters. Right at the time my Dad got there, General Lemay decided to bomb the Japs at tree top level.....too low for both flak and fighter planes to do much good. They were coming in so low that
tar paper and boards from the buildings they were bombing were bouncing off
the sides of the plane. this technique turned out to be a great idea as losses were
cut way down while at the same time the enemy was suffering way more damage.
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