ot down which left them without any trained pilots that were not capable for combat missions. This made it very easy for the United States to destroy the Japanese airforce.Aircraft gave us a different angle on attacking the enemy. Curtis Lamay planned and executed several firestorms, which destroyed cities in Japan. He planned on dropping flaming bombs with the B-29 bomber. This firestorm caused severe destruction with extreme heat at the center, which turned buildings into dust and caused hurricane force winds that effected the land for miles around the focus of the attack. These attacks devastated huge cities that supported the Japanese military.America always wanted to be the biggest, fastest and powerful. World War II forced America to catch up rapidly to gain this rank. At the end to World War II the United States gained this rank with the severe defeat of Japans airforce. At the end of the war there was a large surplus of planes that were used to boost the fleet of commercial aircraft. Wars have caused death and devastation but there are some positive effects, war causes a boost of support for scientific development. Without World War I and II it is hard to say where the status of planes could be in American society....
