A Seabee’s Story: Tinian and Okinawa
B-29s and the Air War Against Japan
by George A. Larson

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• Language: english
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• ISBN: 9781479153817 (1479153818)
• Format: paperback, 396 pages
• Author: George A. Larson
• Release date: August 21, 2012

About The Book

Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir Series

This is the story of the author’s father’s service in WWII as a Seabee in the US Navy.

And it is also the story of the war in the Pacific, in particular the invasion and capture of Tinian and, later, Okinawa.

Also told is the story of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress and the men and women who built and flew the heavy bomber, from airfields in the Pacific, built by the Seabees.

Contents

Tinian Island

Training of a USNCB

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

Naval Engagement with the Japanese Mobile Fleet

Tinian’s Capture

Seabees Land on Tinian

Miracle of Construction

B-29 Operations

Okinawa

The War Ends

Peace in the Pacific

Sources

320 photos, drawings, maps, documents

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