Great pics!!
Ergh...I think the B-29 guys had it tough......
A mission could be up to 20 hours non stop flying, tuned down after allies captured ground closer to Japan, but then it was still a 12 or more hour mission.....
Above Japan, they encountered a fierce wind (forgot the name in english, kind of a jetstream), so high altitude bombing was kinda a disaster....(pin point bombing), so the plans changed to lower altitude, and use burnbombs....day and nightbombing runs
It was known, that Japan industry took place in houses criss cross in towns/cities, ones pieces were assembled, trucks came and picked it up, so it was hard to hit "industry" as Allies saw in Germany, so civilian targets became "military" targets in a way...
On their way back, they could count on subs laying at specific locations, so all the crew had to do, when their plane was badly damaged, was flying to such a location, and ditch in the sea....
All this info comes from a 50 min + movie I have on a dvd...very interesting!