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How One Navigator's "Impossible" Celestial Navigation Saved 330 B-29 Bombers Over Japan | WWII True Story
November 24, 1944. Captain Ralph D. Steakley faced an impossible task: navigate 330 B-29 Superfortress bombers across 1,500 miles of open Pacific Ocean, through solid storm clouds, to hit Tokyo for the first time since the Doolittle Raid. Japanese military planners had declared such a mission impossible—the distance was too great, the weather too unpredictable. They were wrong.
The November 24, 1944 raid on the Nakajima Aircraft Factory marked the beginning of the systematic strategic bombing campaign against Japan. Prior to this mission, Japanese military strategists believed the Marianas Islands were too distant to support sustained bomber operations. Captain Steakley's navigation techniques, distributed fleet-wide within weeks, enabled the entire B-29 campaign that ultimately contributed to Japan's surrender.
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