Building the B-29 (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight)
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1560986093 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jacob Vander Meulen describes the efforts of Henry Hap Arnold and others to launch the project via a process now called concurrency, in which production is set up while the product is still on the drawing boards. Well-illustrated with photographs of factories and diagrams of the plane's design, Building the B-29 presents the social and institutional history of this monumental industrial project. He describes the technical and financial gambles on the part of manufacturers and, using photographs and diagrams, he illustrates the far-reaching changes the B-29 plants brought to their communities, as Depression-era unemployment gave way to labor shortages and as farm workers and women entered U.S. Assembled on a rush basis by a vast manufacturing program that involved hundreds of thousands of workers, the B-29 boosted the Allies' wartime fortunes as it transformed the economies of cities and towns from Seattle, Washington, to Marietta, Georgia, and from Wichita, Kansas, to Woodridge, New Jersey. Envisioned in the late 1930s as a way of demolishing the military infrastructure behind enemy lines, the Super fortress was at first resisted by the reluctant, isolationist Congress of the late 1930s. factories for the first time.. The B-29 Super fortress bomber was the single most complicated and expensive weapon produced by the United States during World War II. Nearly 4,000 B-2