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| Genre/Form: | History Registers (Lists) Registers |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Campbell, Richard H., 1928- Silverplate bombers. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc, ©2005 (OCoLC)607731016 |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard H Campbell |
| ISBN: | 0786421398 9780786421398 |
| OCLC Number: | 58554961 |
| Description: | ix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents: | The beginnning -- Development and production -- Combat operations -- The Los Alamos test program -- Silverplate accidents -- Places and units -- The bombs -- The 509th Composite Group -- The end -- Appendix A : Chronology of events -- Appendix B : Silverplate B-29 mission list (Tinian, 1945) -- Appendix C : Crew information -- Appendix D : 509th Composite Group and Project Alberta roster (Tinian, 1945) -- Appendix E : Project Alberta -- Appendix F : Silverplate B-29 summary -- Appendix G : Individual silverplate B-29 histories. |
| Responsibility: | Richard H. Campbell ; foreword by Paul W. Tibbets. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
This book documents the development and delivery of the Silverplate B-29 bomber, the remarkable airplane that surpassed the capabilities of any known fighter of the time and was employed to release the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
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