ANOTHER B-29 OVER HIROSHIMA ON AUG. 6?

[Dan K]

Interesting read...hadn't known this before.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/01/ ... hotos.html

[Dan K]

...And a link to his pic:

http://specials.msn.com/A-List/Lifestyl ... %20bombing

[TAdan]

Small world, my local paper has an article about one of the men who developed the photo's!

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/ ... cret-photo

How interesting, 65 years later, the photographer and the developer both get their credit in seperate articles.

[Dan K]

Small world, my local paper has an article about one of the men who developed the photo's!

Must've been a different set of pics. The 3rd Recon Squadron's photo lab was on Guam.

[TAdan]

Gotcha

[Garth]

There must be something wrong with me, in that when I read this:

As they neared Hiroshima around 8:15 a.m., a gunner reported over the intercom seeing a B-29 flying in the opposite direction as if headed for an emergency landing at Iwo Jima.


This is what I immediately thought of:

[Dan K]

The story left me curious to search a little further.

Googling the pilot (Jack Economos) I pulled up the following very interesting read:

http://www.cbi-history.com/documents/he ... istory.pdf


Page 17 of this document lists both John McGlohon and Jack Economos as crew on Boeing F-13A 42-24567, with Economos as co-pilot and Capt. Paul Gremmler as pilot. The small unit (5 aircraft) to which they belonged operated out of China as "Flight C, 1st Photo Reconnaissance Squadron (VH)"through early April 1945. After transiting India, they arrived on Guam on May 1st. On May 17 they were attached to the 3rd Photo Recon Squadron, and on or about July 19 attached to the 8th AF.


Joe Baugher's site identifies 42-24567 as being originally built as a B-29-35-BW and converted to F-13.

No idea if 42-24567 was the aircraft flown by McGlohon and Economos over Hiroshima on Aug. 6.

[groundpounder]

Was there ever an attempt to get a bomb on Japan via going over land? ie:Accross europe and then a launch from china or Russia ? Seems like a logical option considering the logistics and casualty rates of the Pacific campain. Naaaawww..... that would have been too simple.

[oscardeuce]

I think Russia did not enter the war with Japan until August 8 1945. Therefore we could not base bombers out of there.

[groundpounder]

Maybe so, but there was a heck of a lot of other land that could have been flown over between May and August. I think i smell politics at work here.

[oscardeuce]

I'm sure there were politics, but there was also the "Hump" to get supplies into the Burma/China theater. I think they tried, but the logistics were just too much.

[Dan K]

I think i smell politics at work here.

Are you sure that's what you're smelling?





This post is about a crew receiving their due for a thankless job done well. Might I politely suggest to those who wish to turn this into a political thing that they start a new thread at a website dedicated to...um...politics. Many thanks in advance.

[ZRX61]

Thought this was going to be about Fifi having a navigation glitch today....

[groundpounder]

I think i smell politics at work here.

Are you sure that's what you're smelling?





This post is about a crew receiving their due for a thankless job done well. Might I politely suggest to those who wish to turn this into a political thing that they start a new thread at a website dedicated to...um...politics. Many thanks in advance.

OOOps!! somebody's touchy.

[dred]

Maybe so, but there was a heck of a lot of other land that could have been flown over between May and August. I think i smell politics at work here.

Not much gets past you, does it.