Reviews for Bringing the Thunder

The average rating for Bringing the Thunder based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-16 00:00:00 Mark D Bailey A Thundering 5 Stars! B-29 perspective. An absolutely excellent memoir! I have read many from this time era, but nothing with this flavor. Mr. Robertson is going to take you on a travel few have traversed. This is nothing more than a normal American answering the "call to arms" and fulfilling the duty to his country with no whining or complaining. Many of us have seen the movie or heard of the plane, "Memphis Bell." Why is that important? Because the crew of the Bell were allowed to rotate back to the states after twenty-five missions. Not so with the B-29 crews;thirty-five missions before you go home. That alone is paramount, but what is even more remarkable is that calculates to over 225,000 miles and 350+ hours of fly time over 90% water. For most of us, that would seem unrealistic, but then the men and women who flew the airs of the Pacific during WWII never wavered from their assigned tasks. They just did it. Mr. Robertson will take you along in his newly minted B-29 on each and every raid. That might seem monotonous, but than, that is the beauty of the book. You will fly with he and his crew and understand what it meant to be a B-29 pilot. Very refreshing. I'd like to address a couple of side notes. We have been inundated over the past decades of inter department rivalries between branches of the Armed Services. You won't find that in this work. He his very thankful for the Marines who took Guam, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He was humbled when he was able to walk old battlefields and witness the carnage of the landscape the Marines and Navy dealt their opponents: The Japs. Yep, this isn't politically correct in its language or reference to the enemy, but that's how it was in the 40's. The Japs attached Pearl Harbor and the men and women on the United States were gonna make em pay. I can not recommend this book enough for the avid or casual reader of WWII.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-07-18 00:00:00 Jeffrey Swall This was a truly excellent memoir of the B-29 campaign in the Marianas. The author flew with the 29th BG out of Guam. My father was a radarman in the 468th BG out of Tinian. These teenagers saved the world with an untried weapon system and a fanatical enemy. There is a reason they are called "the greatest generation".