Russian B-29's

[Ztex]

I was reading about the sound barrier stuff when I happened upon this sentence...
a captured American B-29 that had made an emergency landing in Siberia during the war

So...A B-29 landing in Serbia? is this a post war-pre iron curtain landing or was it a WWII B-29 event?

Anyone ever heard about this airplane?

4th paragraph...
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0198b.shtml

[A2C]

So...A B-29 landing in Serbia? is this a post war-pre iron curtain landing or was it a WWII B-29 event?

Anyone ever heard about this airplane?

Siberia, at least 5 landed after damage over Japan, and I think a few PV-1's near Vladivostok.

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[Mgawa]

My friend have talk with mechanich from the Yugoslav unit operating Bf109G in the area of Trieste and his claim is that one pilot have emergency take off and force to land oen plane for which he said that it have six engine. One of crew member was black. I know also that Yugoslav Spitfire shoot down one C-47 after the war during the Trieste crisis.

I have some info about the some emergenccy landing in Soviet Union but this will need some time to get it. Technicaly it is possible to reach Syberia if the B-29 have task to bomb the north of Japan.

[Ztex]

Doh! never mind....my tired old brain saw SERBIA

[Holedigger]

They sure did have some A/C that they refused to give back. Great allies they were! Though the did return the crews. See details

http://www.moninoaviation.com/40a.html

On July 29, 1944 Ramp Tramp, a B-29-5-BW serial number 42-6256, was unable to return to its base after a raid in Manchuria and landed in Vladivostok.

On November 11, 1944 The General H.H. Arnold Special, serial number 42-6365, was damaged during a raid against Omura on Kyushu was forced to divert to Vladivostok

On November 21, 1944 Ding How, serial number 42-6358, also landed in Vladivostok.

[Edward Sheetmetalhands]

Are you speaking of the three captured B-29's during WWII? One was the Hap Arnold, another the Ding How, don't remember the third.

There was a really good write up in the Smithsonian Air and Space magazine on the three interns, plus the 700 TU-4 B-29 copies. I googled it but the link was busy. I think someone also wrote a book.

[Mgawa]

No problem Zane

[Holedigger]

Serbia...ah...er...don't think so, let me check my map!?!

[Mgawa]

Ha ha ha- I hear long time ago some from USA said "Yugoslvaia- is this in Russia". Yes we are in maps, thanks to that [and trader in our gouverment] US pilots have done very precise bombing.... in many cases

[Ztex]

Dang...open mouth insert foot....

[Mgawa]

Who is Dang?

BTW- I try to search some heavy loaded folders and did not find any match valuable for you and related to the landing of B-29 in Soviet Union.

[Old SAR pilot]

Yup, the Sovs "blueprint-copied" them and reproduced them as Tu-4 BULL bombers. Info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4

They eventually caught on to those garbage 3350's, tho and installed engines of their own design...

The Chinese even used one with turboprop engines as an early AWACS:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/China--- ... id=1205559

[Django]

The best part of the story is how they copied combat repairs and gave every single Tu-4 the same "patch".

[bdk]

Who is Dang?

Dang is slang for "dag nab it."

How about "damn," maybe that translates better? The filter on this site changes it to "dang."

[Ztex]

Actually the site filter changes it to darn.

Being from Texas, Dang is just part of my vernacular.


I'm guessing I'm not the only one around here that doesn't read carefully...




Yeah Yeah I know about the TU-4's

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