A Fighter And An Escort Changes The Course Of World War II

Being the real first heavy bomber, the B-29 would start production six years after the B-17 won the USAAC competition. The head of Boeing Aircraft Co. on January 29, 1940, received a letter titled "U.S. Army, Airplane, Bombardment, Specification For". (The Boeing B-29) This would start production of the B-29. After thousands of hours of work, the plane took it maiden flight on September 21, 1942. The plane could carry a whopping 70 tons of cargo, the same amount of weight the Enola Gay carried on its way to Japan. It could fly at 400 miles per hour, almost 200 more miles per hour than its predecessor. The plane could also fly 4 thousand miles. (The Boeing B-29) The most famous B-29, the Enola Gay, dropped the bombs on Japan and forced them to raise the white flag and win the war against the Japanese. The plane was flown by Paul Tibblets and Robert Lewis. These planes helped win the war against the Axis powers and capture Berlin.

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On July 28, 1935, the first porotype of the B-17 or also known as the B-299 took off from Boeing Field in south Seattle on its first ever test flight (Boeing “B-17”). Seattle Times reporter Richard Smith dubbed the new plane, with its many .30 caliber machine-guns, the “Flying Fortress,” (qtd.in Boeing). A name that Boeing quickly adopted and trademarked for the gigantic bomber (Boeing “B-17”). The U.S. Army Air Corps designated the plane as the B-17. Boeing created the plane in response to the Army’s request for a large, multi-engine bomber. The B-17 financed entirely by Boeing, went from the design board to flight tests in less than a year. In Boeings description of the B-17 was a low-wing monoplane that combined aerodynamic features

Because of the tight formations and gutsy flying by the B-17 crews they were able to put thousands of tons of bombs on target with great accuracy. The insight and information of the crews was a vital part in the military to create bigger and better equipment to help the war come to a close. While many of the crews were lost, the steel on target and the information provided saved thousands of lives. The average death toll of a B-17 pilot during World War II was eighty percent. To put that in perspective CPT. Morgan, the pilot of the Memphis Belle, said it like this, “You eat breakfast with 10 of your closest buddies, go on a mission, and only two would be at

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As dawn broke on a Sunday morning of December 7, 1941 on the Hawaiian island of Oahu where Pearl Harbor was home to a giant US Navy and Army. There were more than one hundred warships which included eight massive battleships. The US was suffering from the Great Depression, which made Americans think that they would stay out of World War II. As tensions grew between Japan and America, American sailors and airmen were training just in case the US were to join World War II. Americans had not realized that Japan and America were becoming enemies because the main enemy was Adolf Hitler; his goal was to conquer all the democracies of Europe. In 1940, Netherlands and France fell, leaving England to stand alone against the Germans. President Franklin Roosevelt shipped arms, tanks, and planes to help the British but not America soldiers. June of 1940, Japan invaded Vietnam and Cambodia, Roosevelt then took action. He moved the US Pacific Fleet from California to Pearl Harbor to stand guard in the Pacific against further Japanese advances. Three hundred Japanese bombers and fighters were launched in two waves before and after dawn. Back in Hawaii everyone was following their normal duties, thinking that the waves of bombers were US pilots doing drills. The planes kept coming directly over the harbor lower than usual. Minutes later, bombs fell. (Demuth 1-5)

Word War II was a time that caused many people to feel a lot of tension, anxiety and concern. While some wanted power, control, and wanted the notion of superiority. Others were left feeling unsafe, scared, and were worried of what the future would bring them. The uncertainly lead many to feed off the fear and the tension among people rose. No one was to be trusted.

This bomber was “Designed for US requirement, a 4 engine bomber capable for long distance travel” (Writer). One the first flight of B-17 bomber, it started a non-stop flight from Seattle to Wright Field in nine hours. After 40 flight-hours “The prototype crashed, because the elevator gust-lock was still engaged” (Dwyer). The B-17 broke long-range records during its time, there are more This made it a good bomber so they can send it across the atlantic ocean. The flying fortress has four engines, that does 1,2000 horsepower each. The top speed is 282 knots (325 Mph), and can carry about 11,5000 lb. Near the end of the war when Germany was weaken by B-17s. The Allies sent these B-17 bombers in to bomb out the factories. Germany started to not produce that many units, and researching has decreased because of it. Then this handed allies a chance to bring Hitler

World War 2 was one of the worst wars of all time. In 1939, Adolf Hitler started a war because of his genocide of Jewish people. And, he was succeeding. No one could stop him. We needed something to change. If we didn’t stop something soon, Hitler would take over all of the Middle East and presume to take over the world. The US thankfully came up with a solution to this, they created an unstoppable force, the B-29 Superfortress Fighter Plane. The B-29 was the most destructive warplane ever to be invented. It was the fastest, most advanced plane of its time. The B-29 was used in World War Two and won the excruciating war for the Americans. The B-29 is even admired by people today. This is the plane that saved the world.

In 1946, the US Air Force began a program in secret, a program that would push the boundaries of aviation into the stratosphere. It was a hugely expensive undertaking which would require creative accounting and the full financial strength of the US government. Tens of thousands of engineering man hours, many lives, years and careers would be consumed in the attempt to unravel the secrets of flight at supersonic speed. The program was conducted in relative obscurity, far from prying eyes, in California's high desert at Muroc Army Air Base. The base was renamed Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 in honor of Capt. Glen Edwards, who was killed in a crash of the YB-49 flying wing a year earlier. The YB-49 wasn't intended to break speed records, it was an airplane that broke every configuration rule in an effort to improve efficiency and carry more bombs farther on a given load of fuel. Bomb load and range were the measures used to determine the value of a bomber in our most recent conflict, WWII. The YB-49 was a concept far ahead of its time and would reemerge in the future as the B-2 when control technology would catch up with the concept. It was a tailless, underpowered flying wing that suffered for the lack of the computers required to

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Out of the 20 million Germans living in Germany, only 3 million survived World War II, and I was one of them. I was only 8 when the war began. I had to leave my best friend at the age of 11, to move westward to my grandparents’ house since our part of Germany was getting bombed. I never heard from my father during the war, since he was at the only hospital in Germany, treating wounded soldiers miles away from my family. After the war, when we returned, nothing was the same.

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