Henry Eugene "Red" Erwin, Sr. is a recipient of the Medal of Honor which he earned aboard a heavy bomber whose design exceeded the cost of what?
Henry E. Erwin Henry Eugene "Red" Erwin, Sr., (May 8, 1921 – January 16, 2002) was a United States Army Air Forces airman and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II. He earned the award as a staff sergeant and radio operator aboard a B-29 Superfortress in the Asia-Pacific theater. During a 1945 bombing mission over Koriyama, Japan, a white phosphorus bomb prematurely ignited in his aircraft and seriously wounded him. As smoke filled the plane, he picked up the burning device and carried it through the aircraft to the cockpit where he tossed it out a window. Although he suffered severe burns, he successfully saved his plane and all crew members aboard by disposing of the incendiary/smoke-generating bomb.
H-class battleship proposals The H class was a series of battleship designs for Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine", intended to fulfill the requirements of Plan Z in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The first variation, "H-39," called for six ships to be built, essentially as enlarged "Bismarck"-class battleship s with 40.6 cm guns. The "H-41" design improved the "H-39" ship with still larger main guns, with eight 42 cm weapons. Two subsequent plans, "H-42" and "H-43", increased the main battery yet again, with 48 cm pieces, and the enormous "H-44" design ultimately resulted with 50.8 cm guns. The ships ranged in size from the "H-39", which was 277.8 m long on a displacement of 56444 MT , to the "H-44", at 345 m on a displacement of 131000 MT . Most of the designs had a top speed in excess of 30 kn .