Posted on 03/04/2017 5:25:43 PM PST by rey
Nice short video of a restored B29
Isn’t it amazing that we went from the Wright Flyer to that aircraft in 40 years?
Too bad that one they lost, up in Alaska.
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Very cool. Love old aircraft
Always good to see. Thanks!
One of Japan’s worst nightmares takes to the sky again.
Very cool.
AWESOME!
My father was BAR rifleman with the 1st Marine Division during the invasion of Okinawa. Once the island and the airfield was secured, he told me of the day that he saw the first B-29 land there. He said he just stood there in awe at that sheer size of that airplane. He had never seen anything like it before in his life.
Through the years, he often express gratitude for the B-29 as he and his fellow marines knew that gearing up for the invasion of Japan was not far off. The B-29s dropping the nukes spared thousands of our servicemen’s lives, probably including my father’s at the time. He would often talk about that day he saw the first one right up until a few days before he passed away. The plane left a life-long impression on that man.
Thanks for the story about your father in WW2 admiring the B-29s.
My father was in charge of production of the brake assemblies for the B-29’s landing gear in a family owned machine shop in NJ.
In 1943-44, this was critical war work, to get the B-29s in production ASAP.
In 1945, there was nothing as modern as a B-29 SuperFortress.
A sight to behold.
My former neighbor, Col. Newt Tyndall, died recently at age 98.
From his obituary:
“His distinguished 30-year Air Force career spanned World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was one of the first master navigators in the world (celestial and radar). During World War II, he was assigned to the 58th Bomb Wing, which was the first unit to take B-29s into the war against Japan. He flew 25 combat missions and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal, along with other citations. He witnessed the end of World War II Sept. 2, 1945, when his crew led a formation of B-29s over the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay during the surrender ceremony on its deck.”
cool!
“Too bad that one they lost, up in Alaska.”
Yes it is. Guess there are now two flyable B-29’s; this one, Doc and Fe Fe which is owned by the Midland, Tx based Ghost Squadron, formally the Confederate Air Force.
Wright Brothers + 40 yrs....B29...
Wowed.
FI FI ...
I worked at a shop next to that Aircraft.
Still WOWED!
A long and full life.
My Dad flew 30 missions over Japan in B-29s before his 21st birthday. I can’t imagine what that must have been like. He rarely spoke of it.
Such sleek machines those B-29s. It’s interesting how much bomber design changed just over the course of the war. Really sweet how they included Connie the riveter lady in the ceremony. She cried when the plane she put rivets in 70 years ago lifted off. Cool video.
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