Jesse C. Posted May 3, 2018 Report Share Posted May 3, 2018 Sadly.... The crew of B-29 Superfortress 42-24598 "Waddy's Wagon", 20th Air Force, 73rd Bomb Wing, 497th Bomb Group, 869th Bomb Squadron, the fifth B-29 to take off on the first Tokyo mission from Saipan on November 24, 1944, and first to land back at Isley Field after bombing the target. Crew members, posing here to duplicate their caricatures on the plane, are : Plane Commander, Captain Walter R. "Waddy" Young, Ponca City, Oklahoma, former All-American end; Lieutenant Jack H. Vetters, Corpus Christi, Texas, pilot; Lieutenant John F. Ellis, Moberly, Missouri, bombardier; Lieutenant Paul R. Garrison, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, navigator; Sergeant George E. Avon, Syracuse, New York, radio operator; Lieutenant Bernard S. Black, Woodhaven, New York, Flight Engineer; Sergeant Kenneth M. Mansie of Randolph, Maine, Flight Technician; and gunners - Sargeants Lawrence L. Lee of Max, North Dakota; Wilbur J. Chapman of Panhandle, Texas; Corbett L. Carnegie, Grindstone Island, New York; and Joseph J. Gatto, Falconer, New York. All were killed when "Waddy's Wagon" was shot down attempting to guide a crippled B-29 back to safety during a mission against the Nakajima aircraft factory in Musashino, Japan on January 9, 1945 1 Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted May 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2018 All I saw in this photo was a killer B210... :rofl: A British Airways supersonic Concorde landing in Sydney on the runway over General Homes Drive in February 1985. 1 Quote Link to comment
VFR800 Posted May 4, 2018 Report Share Posted May 4, 2018 Here they were branded as Datsun 120Y. Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted May 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2018 Here they were branded as Datsun 120Y. Yes, but the chassis code is still B210. ^_^ 1 Quote Link to comment
VFR800 Posted May 5, 2018 Report Share Posted May 5, 2018 Yes, but the chassis code is still B210. ^_^ 1 Quote Link to comment
VFR800 Posted May 6, 2018 Report Share Posted May 6, 2018 Akron-Canton airport in the city of Green in Ohio c1940. United Air Lines Douglas DC3. 2 Quote Link to comment
VFR800 Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 Shifting a British made RNZAF de Havilland Vampire jet along a quiet New Zealand road in the 1950s Quote Link to comment
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