Hallo,
and welcome to my new Vid about a big once, the B-29 / RB - 50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Rz_8w8eyYsorry, hier is the link to the "Harrier" story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP7FK5KtZlco.k., and here the story about the B-29
History
After American troops in the late summer and fall of 1944 captured in the western Pacific belonging to the Marianas islands of Guam, Saipan and Tinian, were suitable bases for the B29 available. Navy freighters were here, in contrast to the situation in China, bring enough bombs and fuel to the islands. They are only about 2500 km south-east of Japan, which was so easy to reach from the B29.
Even before the last stubborn Japanese resistance was broken in the Marianas, the pioneers did with their bulldozers fact airfields to create.
The first B29 landed on 12 October 1944 at a not quite finished runway on Saipan and was Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell on board, the commander of the 20th Air Force assumed new XXI. Bomberkomandos. On 24 November saw the first American bombing raid Tokyo, Doolittle has been B25 half years ago on the capital were. The "payback" for Hawaii could begin.
This flight is the first step towards the XXI Bomberkomandos of Nebraska to Saipan. Flight simulation, together with the original film of the U.S. Army Air Force as a historical background
Thank