Thursday, August 14, 2014

Does anyone know where the 1000th B29 is?


Becki's grand dad was upper left in this photo, Don Evans, and her family is curious about where the plane is now (if known)


See the comments to learn that though it's been scrapped, it's surprising how much info you can get by using Google. (Thanks John!)


those are dollar bills that are going to get donated to the March of Dimes from the workers at the Boeing plant

Thanks Steve!

4 comments:

  1. Is that the same as this one? http://www.retrohound.com/some-boeing-b-29-superfortresses-that-my-grandparents-helped-build/

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    1. Yes! That's the one! I reposted that photo too!

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  2. If you Google just the plane number "44-69890" the first result you get links to a book called "The B-29 Superfortress: A Comprehensive Registry of the Planes and Their Missions". Follow that link and it shows plane 44-69890 was named "The Antagonizer", it was delivered 2/14/1945, it was assigned to the 39th bomber group, and that it was "reclaimed" at Tinker Air Base (OK) on 8/8/1945. I believe "reclaim" means it was flyable but surplus and probably parted out and scrapped.

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