b29

The last of the fifteen "Silverplate" B-29s, USAAF 44-86347, B-29-50-MO, "Laggin' Dragon." See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laggin%27_Dragon

Boeing RB-29A Superfortress (modified B-29A-50-BN), USAF Ser. No. 44-61815 (c/n 1192), "Daijobu." As per the Joe Baugher site: www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1944_4.html

44-61815 Delivered to USAAF 15 Jun 45. Modified to F-13A; re-designated 1948 as RB-29A Assigned to 331st Bomb Group, 315th Bomb Wing. Named ‘Moonshine Raiders’. Named ‘Gay Times’ Assigned to 98th Bomb Group, Spokane AFB, WA. Named ‘Diajobu’ Assigned to 30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Andersen AFB, Guam. Named ‘Beat Up Bastard’ Assigned to 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Group, Yokota AB, Japan Named ‘Moon’s Moonbeam’. Named ‘Sunbonnet King’. Accident 25 Mar 52 taxiing at Yokota AB, Japan Shot down by two Soviet LA-11 Oct 7, 1952 near Yuri Islands, Kuriles, USSR. Eight crew members killed.

Another photo of 44-61815 in the SDASM Flickr Commons collection:

Martin-Omaha manufactured "Silverplate" B-29 (B-29-35-MO, later modified to B-29-36-MO), USAAF Ser. 44-27296, named "Some Punkins" (ex- "Some Pumpkins"), built as part of the atomic bomb effort. Note the "Fat Man" mission markings, representing the number of times this aircraft bombed Japan with high-explosive bombs shaped like the plutonium-implosion device dropped by "Bockscar" (USAAF Ser. No. 44-27297) over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. These high-explosive versions of the "Fat Man" nuclear device were known as "Pumpkin Bombs," hence this aircraft's name. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Punkins en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverplate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_bomb