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Photographs taken at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force (NMUSAF), Dayton, Ohio.
Part II here: https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2024/06/23/boeing-b-29-superfortress-walk-around-part-ii/
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Thanks for these Jeff. As “woke” as the USAF has become, at least they haven’t seen the need to apologize, yet, for dropping the bomb.
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I agree, hopefully we’ve seen the worst of it!
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Hello Jeff,
Thanks for the airplane photos. In the story panel no mention of Palembang? In 1944 Doolittle raided Nagasaki from carriers while 54 b29’s left Ceylon for the Dutch East Indies oil refineries. Apart from Palembang being reported as the most expensive and least effective usaaf mission of ww2 – there was an investigation apparently, I only discovered all this big stuff about three years ago despite having known about it since I was a small child in a different guise!
I never quite believed my dad’s story of being in the Indian Ocean and meeting Americans with bulldozers.
He was in the fleet air arm stationed in Ceylon. His war had mainly been fairy swordfish biplane maintenance. He told me the Americans turned up with a load of gear and extended the runway. Then their aircraft turned up did one mission and flew away again. He gave the impression that it was just a few planes. I grew up with this weird idea of some small palm beach island with a few fleet air arm people and planes with unexpected American visitors – proper child imagination.
He never mentioned seeing 54 B29’s. He never mentioned the planes and I never asked and simply forgot all about the story until a few years ago.
He had probably never seen a four engined bomber/plane let alone 54. It would have been interesting to know what he made of these monsters.
What he did say is that the Americans left one damaged plane at the airfield and the FAA were only able to gut it after the Americans had left.
The reality was insufficient supplies/materials got to the FAA on Ceylon – never enough – so a whole plane for spare parts/ raw materials was like a gold mine.
My dad serviced American planes in the Indian Ocean on escort carriers and I still have some of his USA made tools in his wooden service tool box along with some big needles for the “string bags”.
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Great story! The B-29 bombing effort only really got going when the bases in the Marianas became operational. The entire CBI was always a logistical nightmare.
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