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Welcome
This site is a effort to compile information for doing research on the men who crewed the B 29 Superfortress & the plane itself.
All that is posted on this site is a joint effort by Sparky Corradina & David Maxwell proud descendents of 20th Army Air Corps Veterans
I have a site dedicated to the 505 Bomb Group which was my Dads Group . On the site you will find more detailed info on the planes of the 505 . Sparky works with the 40th Bomb Group site that his Dad was a member of.
505 th BG  Site |
40 th BG Site |
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This site will be constantly updated !
Please note this is a work in progress , we are adding new info almost daily !
As I continue to update the page's I will have the date I up date posted at the top of the page.
Over 1000 Nose Art Names & Info listed !
For your surfing convenience I have added a"News & Updates" in the site links 2-18-01
On these pages we will be listing B 29 Nose Art names & their serial numbers where we have them . We have several lists given to us over the past couple of year s & so often we refer to these while helping some one do research . So here we will post all this plus what we have gathered over the course of several years . Now some as you will see have a partial number / no number /unit assignment or not ! If you can help fill in the blanks it will be appreciated !
SallyAnns B29-org/
SallyAnns website is the #1 place on the net for the B 29 ! Photos & stories from those that served . Sally also host s a mailing list of over 250 members Vets Family & Fans of the B 29
HeavyBombers.com
Scott Burris s website Here you will find tons of material on all the Heavybombers B17 B24 & the B 29 If you know the unit a person or plane was with & would like to research this Scott has all the unit represenitives listed on his site !
| List Contributers |
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| Bill Satavicca 6 th Bomb Group |
| Jess Richey & Herb Harper of the 98 th Bomb Group Korean Era |
| Wendel Van Syoc 505 Bg 482 Squad |
| Lew Meeks 468 Bomb Group |
MACR
Missing Air Crew Reports There are a number of resouces to obtain a MACR the one we recomendUSAAF & USAF Aircraft Accident Reports 1918-1955
A new addition to our site is a MACR data base . Here we have begun to list the MACR number , unit assigned , the date of loss and the plane s serial number . As you will see this info is grouped by Wing . You can obtain the MACR 's threw the above mentioned service .
We have done numerous researchs & this service is the very best there is ! Even if you have few detail s this service can work with minimal information . This is only the beginning of the MACR data base (1-22-01 ) As with all aspects of our site if you have any other MACR numbers to add we will appreciate it !
The MACR roster s are growing to help with loading & editing I am breaking the information in two sections . The 73 rd & 58 th Wing will be posted on page 1. The 313 , 314 & 315 Wings will be on page 2 . { 2-11-01 }
City of 314 Wing
A new addition to the data base is a separate page for the planes of the 314 Wing 19 , 29 , 39 , & 330 groups .This wing had a standard theme the "City of 's" for their nose art . Some also carried a additional name on the other side of the plane this is where you will see the "a.k.a" within the list . Pete Weiler has sent us a lot of the info posted on these planes ,Thank You !
There are a couple of exceptions not all "City of s " belonged to the 314 These will be listed below the 314 plane roster .
RAF B-29 s
The Washingtons were used to equip 9 RAF Squadrons of 8 aircraft each (I presume the other 15 were reserves) at 3 bases Marham, Coningsby and Watton. The squadrons were, in order of being equipped, 115, 149, 90, 15, 44 , 57, 207, 35 and 192.{87 total}
Chris Howlet is doing research on these planes . His Dad worked on these he has teamed up with Sparky to chronicle these planes before during & after thier service with the RAF . He has sent us the photo posted on the page .Thank You
| Index & Info | |
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| Sac = Strategic Air Command | |
| aka = Also known as | |
| W = wing | G = group |
| S = squad | K = Korean Era |
| PRC= Photo Recon | WRC = Weather Recon |
Last modified 2-11-01
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