Posted on 07/09/2017 5:10:20 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
http://mortefontainevillage.pagesperso-orange.fr/marcbrecy/b29.html
Got this in an Email. Many may have seen many may have not as there is a Good Morning America logo on it.(Disclaimer I don't watch GMA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_AZeMRqCfg
Or just go to the direct youtube link and not give the blog hits
whatever grumpy I didn’t get a YOUTUBE link, Geshhh
Longer video of restored B-29
On the embedded youtube video. If you click on it to get it playing, on the bottom right there’s a youtube logo. Click on that, and it pops into it’s own tab/window on youtube, and you can see the direct URL
Its the same one
whatever, once was enough and I gave the blog a hit, big deal
Beautiful restoration. The polished metal skin of the B-29 looks awesome.
Thanks. My father flew in B-29s as a weather observer at the end of WWII and into the late 1940s, during the time when the U.S. Army Air Corps became the U.S. Air Force. God bless you and your family.
Thanks for posting this. What a great video, especially having the 91 year old woman who actually originally riveted part of the plane there.
This really exemplifies American can-do and innovation during some our darkest times. “Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II” is a great book about these accomplishments.
Ping
This B-29 (and most of the other extant B-29s, including the CAF’s “Fifi”) survived thanks to a bureaucratic fluke. China Lake requested something like 15 surplus B-29s to be used as ground targets; due to a typo or misread, the Air Force sent over many, many more of them...all at once. The base was overwhelmed, and was stuffing the bombers off in remote corners of the range to get them out of the way...and one cluster was forgotten until it was rediscovered in the 1970s.
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