Mission to Tokyo: The American Airmen Who Took the War to the Heart of Japan by Robert F. Dorr

Author:Robert F. Dorr [Dorr, Robert F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Published: 2012-09-14T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

Thirty Seconds over Tokyo

Mission to Tokyo March 10, 1945, 2:00 a.m.–3:05 a.m.

ONE OF THE EARLY CASUALTIES in the flickering sky near a burning Tokyo was Zero Auer, the B-29 piloted by airplane commander 1st Lt. Robert Auer of the 19th Bombardment Group from Guam. A witness later wrote, “when Zero Auer approached the target the flak was heavy and heat from the fires kicked up heavy thermals that made the aircraft bounce around.” An Auer family member later wrote of “the brute physical challenge” of controlling the sixty-five-ton Superfortress while it was being batted around like a toy, describing the situation as demanding every ounce of muscle and ability Auer and his right-seat pilot 2nd Lt. Harold D. Currey Jr. could come up with.

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