509thcompositegroup

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35mm slide image

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  • Stig Jarlevik said:
    You left out one digit in your tag, s/n was 44-27298 Stig
  • TVL1970 said:
    Stig Jarlevik Thanks for catching that, Stig. Corrected.

9th bomb group image

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  • TVL1970 said:
    A "Silverplate" B-29 (B-29-40-MO), USAAF Ser. No. 44-27353, "The Great Artiste," belonging to the atomic 393rd Bomb Squadron of the 509th Composite Group on Tinian. The Great Artiste was the only aircraft to fly as part of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb missions. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Artiste

B-29-45-MO Enola Gay Oct. 1946 LGA

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  • Veedubber79 said:
    Boeing B-29-45-MO Superfortress 44-86292 "Enola Gay" (VN 82) w/ "Silverplate" mods of Col Paul Tibbet's crew in the 393rd BS 509th CW 58th BW 20th AF. Dropped first atomic weapon on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 Aug 45. Now at the Smithsonian Air & Space Center's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.