Operation Matterhorn
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Operation Matterhorn was a military operation of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II for strategic bombing by Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers based in India, Ceylon and China. Targets included industrial facilities in Japan, China and Southeast Asia.
B-29 bomber bases in China and the main targets they attacked in East Asia during Operation Matterhorn
Cairo Conference. Back row, left to right: Shang Zhen, Ling Wei, Brehon Somervell, Joseph W. Stilwell, Henry H. Arnold, Sir John Dill, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Carton de Wiart. Front row: Chiang Kai-shek; Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill and Soong Mei-ling.
Workers assemble the forward compartment of a B-29 at the Boeing plant in Seattle, Washington
Kharagpur area airfields
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
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The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is an American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War. Named in allusion to its predecessor, the B-17 Flying Fortress, the Superfortress was designed for high-altitude strategic bombing, but also excelled in low-altitude night incendiary bombing, and in dropping naval mines to blockade Japan. B-29s dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only aircraft ever to drop nuclear weapons in combat.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
Boeing assembly line at Wichita, Kansas (1944)
The length of the 141-foot (43 m) wing span of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress based at Davis-Monthan Field is vividly illustrated here with the cloud-topped Santa Catalina Mountains as a contrasting background.
YB-29 Superfortresses in flight