Japanese Generals Dismissed the B-29 as Too Complex — Then 3,970 Bombed Japan with 147,000 Tons

When Japanese intelligence first detected the B-29 Superfortress program, their military leadership couldn't believe America could build such an advanced aircraft at scale. Four engines producing 8,800 horsepower. Pressurized cabins at 30,000 feet. Remote-controlled gun turrets operated by analog computers. A $3 billion program that cost more than the Manhattan Project itself.
They called it impossible. Too complex. Too ambitious.
Then America built 3,970 of them.
In this video, you'll discover:
→ How the Wright R-3350 engines were so dangerous they killed 32 people in a single test flight crash, yet America still produced thousands of them
→ The "Battle of Kansas" — when a manufacturing crisis threatened to derail the entire program until 1,800 workers created 150 combat-ready bombers in just 30 days
→ Curtis LeMay's radical tactical revolution that abandoned precision bombing for low-altitude incendiary raids — a decision he admitted would have made him a war criminal if America had lost
→ The March 9-10, 1945 Tokyo firebombing that killed 100,000 people in a single night — more than either atomic bomb — when 279 B-29s turned 16 square miles of the city into an inferno
→ Why Japanese fighter defenses collapsed from 2.5% B-29 loss rates in January 1945 to 0% by July — not a single Superfortress lost to enemy fighters across 6,464 sorties
→ The shocking reality that conventional B-29 firebombing destroyed 66 Japanese cities and killed 333,000 people before the atomic bombs even dropped
This is the story of how American industrial power — dismissed as propaganda by Axis leaders — built the most complex aircraft of World War II faster than Japan could build simple fighters. Admiral Yamamoto warned his government: "Anyone who has seen America's industrial power will know that Japan cannot win."
He was right. The B-29 proved it beyond all doubt.