# THE LAST BOMB B-29 RAIDS ON JAPAN U.S. ARMY AIR FORCE WWII FILM 33574

This official War Department film titled “The Last Bomb” and was photographed by Army Air Forces Combat Camera Units and special personnel of the AAF Motion Picture Unit. Filmed in Technicolor in 1945, it concentrates on the B-29 bombing raids on Japan in World War II. Striking from bases in Saipan, Tinian, and Guam, the Superfortresses traveled 3,000 miles roundtrip as part of long range bombardment operations in the final months of the war. Members of the XXI Bomber Command (a unit of the Twentieth Air Force headquartered on Guam) “planned the ultimate crushing defeat of Japan, down to the last bomb, Here was the beginning of the end of the road to Tokyo,” the viewer is informed at mark 01:00 . The camera pans the shores of Guam as we are told that the island no longer looks ravished by war and that the natives had returned to their villages, “happy and smiling.” By adding paved roads, landing strips, and bases, the landscape of Guam had been changed by American forces. Under the command of General Curtis LeMay, the XXI Bomber Command had ground crews work around the clock to keep B-29 operational. “By July, LeMay’s bomber command is an efficient, well-oiled, well-trained, machine of destruction,” it is noted at mark 02:45 . They also began low-altitude nighttime incendiary attacks on Japanese targets. (Because Japanese cities were largely constructed of combustible materials such as wood and paper, the resulting damage was extraordinary). At mark 3:10 , the audience is…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/33574TheLastBomb)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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