Réarmement d'un bombardier B-29 Superfortress du 882e Escadron de bombardement du 500e Groupe de bombardement – Guerre du Pacifique – Isley Field – Saipan – Iles Mariannes – Juillet 1945

Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Force for Freedom" with bombs underneath at an Airfield.

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A pair of 22,000 lb "Grand Slam" bombs could be carried on external racks developed by Boeing-Wichita. This project was developed for use against targets on the Japanese mainland; however, it was never used in combat.

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Fifi, A 1944 B-29, over Monument Valley

Birth Of The B 29 Superfortress. The WWII North American Mighty Bomber https://youtu.be/_InegQxwbwE #B29 #Bomber #Boeing #WWII #History #documentary

Women workers work on the fuselage of the B-29 Superfortress bomber in the Boeing plant - Seattle, USA, date unknown

A U.S. Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber from the 19th Bomb Group attacking a target in Korea. February, 1951

cockpit of a boeing b-29 superfortress

Messerschmitt Me 264 V1 (RE+EN). First flew on 23.12.1942 and it was Messerschmitt's proposal for the Amerikabomber project. It was ultimately a failure and only three were ordered, V1-V3. It was unarmed and unarmoured, and while in service with Transportstaffel 5, it was damaged by an Allied bombing raid on 18.6.1944 and was not repaired. The V3 was destroyed during the same raid. The V2 was destroyed in October 1943 during another bombing attack.

In 1943 the Kriegsmarine cancelled any interest in the Me 264, in favour of the Junkers Ju 290 (which was built and operated) and the proposed six engined Ju 390 (two were built and flown). The Luftwaffe also cancelled any interest and preferred the yet unbuilt Focke-Wulf Ta 400 and the Heinkel He 277.

The whole Amerikabomber project was cancelled along with the He 277 on 23.9.44. The aircrafts similarity to the Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a coincidence, as the B-29 first flew only three months before the Me 264. The B-29 was vastly superior in every way to any planned version of the Me 264, as was the Ju 290/390. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

“The crew posing to duplicate their caricatures in the nose art of Boeing B-29 Superfortress ‘Waddy’s Wagon’ of the 869th Bomb Squadron, 497th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force at Isley Airfield in Saipan on November 24, 1944.”

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The KJ-1 was a first generation Chinese AEW (Airborne Early Warning) radar fitted to a development of a Tupolev Tu-4 bomber, which was itself a copied, Soviet reverse engineered Boeing B-29.

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

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"Fifi in Flight"

My grandparents told me in their beautiful village in Siberia the brave American soldiers liberated them and gave them hard candies and cigarettes and the oppressive Soviets invaded their Siberian homes and forced them to eat vegetables and drink lots of water and every day they wished for the brave Americans to return with their helmets and Boeing B-29 Superfortresses to liberate them

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