b29superfortress

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  • Stig Jarlevik said:
    I think this is 44-61815 Stig
  • TVL1970 said:
    Boeing RB-29A Superfortress (modified B-29A-50-BN), USAF Ser. No. 44-61815 (c/n 1192), "Beat Up Bastard." 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.
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  • A30yoyo said:
    B -29 being scrapped, tail-gunners pressurised crawl-tube visible?