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PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 2:03 pm 
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The first photo is actually not a part of the Saipan Series, but kind of cool anyway.

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Just amazing photos!


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Nice one Mark: you never cease to amaze. :drink3:


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Really cool - amazing photos as usual Mark. I would love to have that tail turret trainer here in Wendover. Having been to Saipan, I can imagine how hot it would be inside one of those B-29 sections. I hope they had good fans!!

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Holy Moly!!! Awesome pictures Mark!! :drink3:

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Wow! Had never even known that was a thing. Fascinating how they took the B-29s apart and aligned the sighting blisters. I had the pleasure of spending a few day on Saipan @1991. Still good evidence of WWII if you know what to look for, and a few more obvious like pill boxes and the Sherman still in the surf zone

Can anyone identify the B-29 with the Sky(?) Scrapper II nose art. 6 kill markings.


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Sky-Scrapper II (42-63463) was a 497th Bomb Group B-29. Fell victim to a brakeless B-29 that ran into her hardstand "slicing right through it like it was made of hot butter" on February 19, 1945.

And thanks Mark, wonderful, interesting photos that I'd never seen before.

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Fascinating image essay - thanks, Mark!

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Incredible post-- Love seeing images like this-- stuff that you can study again and again and pick up new details!

Thanks for sharing,

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