The Last Raid: How World War II Ended, August 1945

by Daniel Ford, Warbird Books

While the Japanese war cabinet argued about whether to surrender, and on what terms, the U.S. Army Strategic Air Force on Guam and Tinian geared up for a thousand-plane raid upon the Empire. It would be the last air raid of World War II. This story, which first appeared in Air&Space magazine on the 50th anniversary of the war's end, tells the story of those momentous forty-eight hours. New in this revised a portfolio of photographs and a history of the B-29 project. About 7000 words.

18 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2010

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