{"id":28178,"date":"2024-04-17T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-b-29-superfortess-arrival-china-burma-india-theater\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T03:00:12","slug":"world-war-ii-looking-at-the-boeing-b-29-superfortress-arrival-in-the-china-burma-india-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=28178","title":{"rendered":"World War II: Looking At The Boeing B-29 Superfortress&#8217; Arrival In The China Burma India Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The brass band and ceremonial pomp that welcomed Lieutenant Colonel L.F. Harman&rsquo;s B-29 Superfortress to Chakulia airfield <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisdayinaviation.com\/2-april-1944\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >80 years ago this month, on 2 April 1944<\/a>, represented lofty hopes for an already grueling logistical challenge. Chakulia, some 80 miles west of Kolkata in British India, was one staging ground for Operation Matterhorn. This American campaign, approved in November 1943, was to base long-range <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/bomber\/\">bombers<\/a> in the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater and introduce the kind of strategic bombing that had become standard practice in Europe.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Matterhorn required a herculean logistical effort that helped develop future airlift doctrine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,7931,1455,408,7932,412,409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-history","category-bomber","category-history","category-logistics","category-military","category-world-war-ii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28179,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28178\/revisions\/28179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}