14 Aug 1945

1945: FINAL B-29 COMBAT MISSION AGAINST JAPAN.  This Twentieth Air Force mission included a record number of effective aircraft: 754 B-29s and 169 fighters.  One phase of the mission, against Tsuchizaka, produced the longest unstaged mission (3,650 miles) of the war from the Marianas. (This image was taken in May 1945 over Yokohama, USAAF Image)