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I think this is 44-61815 Stig

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.

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

Its nice to see this nice home for this photo- I took this image in April 1972 -timed exposure on a foggy night about 3AM, while on duty. Just before I left for the 8th SOS to support the A-37s at Bien Hoa AFB RVN in May 1972. All of these planes in the image were sent to RVN in late 1972, before the peace treaty in was signed. The planes flew from Florida all the way to RVN Nha Trang AFB RVN. I was in the lead C-130 along with the rest of support group. Dwayne Meyer

This typical aircraft was delivered to the Air Material Command, Kirtland Field, NM, Sep 1946 for Project Chickenpox conversion as a mock-up for the transport, mobile assembly and maintenance of atomic weapons. To Eglin Field for cold weather tests. Assigned to 1st Strategic Support Unit, SAC, Kirtland Field, NM as a GIA and mock-up vehicle