The Superfortress in China: How the Chinese People Built Airfields for the B-29 Bomber, Rescued U.S. Airmen, and Defeated Japan

by Xiaowei Li

Near the end of World War II, the United States decided to launch a strategic bombing of Japan with both conventional and atomic bombs, using the new B-29 Superfortress. The first strikes were to be carried out from nine airfields to be quickly built around the southwestern city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province. But the real story is how these airfields were built.

By mobilizing 500,000 Chinese peasants and workers in three months under trying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487800940
• ISBN13: 9781487800949
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Royal Collins Publishing Company
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"