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Military Planes of World War II |
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Japanese attack on American naval and air forces at Hawaii's
Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 brought the United States into
World War II. The first three years of the war was largely
characters by the army and marines "island hopping"
across the Pacific. The air war was fought largely between
carrier based planes. Once the Japanese homeland was in
range, the U.S. Army Air Forces established air bases for its
huge new B-29 bombers. During the spring and summer of
1945, "firebombing" reduced the major cities to
ashes. Although already brought to knees by such raids,
the dropping of the atomic bombs forced Japan to
surrender. |
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