December 3

  • THIRD B-29 RAID ON JAPANESE CAPITAL TOKYO

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 6 minutes

    Tinian, Mariana Islands • December 3, 1944 On this date in 1944 86 4-engine B‑29 Super­for­tresses belonging to XXI Bomber Com­mand, a unit of the U.S. Twen­tieth Air Force, left the north­western Pacific Mari­ana Islands base on Tinian on their third Tokyo bombing mis­sion. Ten days earlier 111 of these 4‑engine heavy bombers had launched the…

  • THIRD B-29 RAID ON TOKYO

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 5 minutes

    Tinian, Mariana Islands · December 3, 1944 On this date in 1944 eighty-six 4-engine B‑29 Super­for­tresses belonging to XXI Bomber Com­mand, a unit of the U.S. Twen­tieth Air Force, left the north­western Pacific Mari­ana Islands base on Tinian on their third Tokyo bombing mis­sion. Ten days earlier 111 of these heavy bombers had launched the first raid…