Name: Race for the Superfortress
Uploaded: 2009-01-01
Duration: 32 min 44 s
Description: In order to bring the fight to the heart of Japan, America needs an aircraft with enormous range and firepower. Unfortunately, getting this plane up in the air is easier said than done. Examine the difficulties engineers and workers face while building the B-29 Superfortress.

In order to bring the fight to the heart of Japan, America needs an aircraft with enormous range and firepower. Unfortunately, getting this plane up in the air is easier said than done. Examine the difficulties engineers and workers face while building the B-29 Superfortress.

Explore how engineers, factory workers, and military planners raced to bring the B-29 Superfortress into the air as war intensified in the Pacific. This film reveals the technical failures, production risks, and immense industrial push behind a bomber built before its design was fully resolved. Sign up to see how one aircraft came to shape the course of the war.

Inside the high-stakes effort to build America’s most ambitious wartime bomber.

Race for the Superfortress

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