USAAF B-29 Superfortress massive launching for a raid over Japan in 1945

take off from Saipan, Guam, and Tinian
excerpts from 1945 movie "The Last Bomb"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Las...
the complete movie on US National Archives
• The Last Bomb

[@infantryattacks]

Outstanding film footage. Thank you.

[@TheTomCruiseLover]

The sound of Death... Or freedom, depening on if you were a small kid at ground zero hiroshima or a kid living in Osaka in 1955 and another one in post war suburbs outside of Los Vegas behind a white picket fence coming home from school after a lecture from Bert The Turtle

[@doctorsocrates4413]

Such a shame this marvellous bomber did not come to the party earlier over europe.

[@schlookie]

It was considered for use in Europe, but Europe was a relatively short range theater of war, so the B-17, and B-24 soldiered on. One B-29 was parked up at an airfield in England to ensure the Luftwaffe got a good photo of it. The idea was to intimidate the Germans into thinking that there was a B-29 build up in Britain.

[@slickchick5811]

What's with the big lettering on the tails?

[@extrasolar213]

:D

[@ukasznowak7032]

Super forteca enola gey