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Jim Smith served with the 315th Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force, during the Second World War, when he was a radio operator of a B-29B bomber named The Boomerang. He has researched The Last Mission for more than twenty years. Malcolm McConnell is the author or co-author of twenty-three books, many of them on military subjects. He most recently co-wrote Born to Fly with navy pilot Shane Osborn. He lives near Washington D.C.
We know that the war with Japan ended at midday on 15th August 1945. Smith and McConnell tell us that it need not have been so, and that the last American 'Superfortress' air raid on a Japanese oil refinery played a crucial role in that declaration of peace. Jim Smith, who flew on the all-important raid and has spent twenty years researching it, brings alive the reality of flying against Japan. This ranges from the fact that the American flyers were terrified of their unreliable engines to the fact that the airmen suffered chronic stomach problems on their long flights, and private 'parcels' often went down to be dropped alongside the bombs on the Japanese. Yet this book also gives a superb account of the final days of the Japanese empire. This is not only a good book. It is refreshingly different. REVIEW BY DR MARTIN STEPHEN (Kirkus UK)
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