1945 B-29 - World War II ends

PACIFIC BOMBINGS PROVE DECISIVE
Near the end of World War II, Boeing produced the B-29, an advanced aircraft that had a pressurized cabin, electronic fire-control system and remote-controlled machine gun turrets. The Army Air Corps extensively used the four-engine “Superfortress” in the Pacific theater, many launched from a forward base in China and, after they were seized in the summer of 1944, the Mariana Islands. Although it was originally designed and built for high-altitude bombing raids, the aircraft was also used in low-level raids in support of the United States’ island hopping strategy in the Pacific Ocean.