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B-19 ARRIVES TO
JOIN COLLECTION
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Biggest Pre-War Bomber
Wings to D-M From
Wright Field
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The B-19, forerunner of the very
heavy bomber, which was com-
pleted in 1941, arrived at Davis-Monthan
field at 7:30 p.m. last night. It will
be temporarily stored alongside
the B-29 that dropped the first
atomic bomb; the B-24 flew Wen-
dell Willkie around the world, and
many other museum pieces des-
tined to become a part of the Army
Air Forces Museum to be estab-
lished at either Dayton or Cleve-
land, Ohio.

Piloted by Col. Albert Boyd,
chief test pilot at Wright field, and
a crew of five men, the giant ship
arrived at Davis-Monthan eight
hours and forty minutes after tak-
ing off from Dayton, Ohio.

Colonel Boyd, who has flown the
ship for experimental purposes
since it was accepted by the A.A.F.
in November, 1941, stated that this,
the first very heavy bomber type
ship, has been used extensively by
the Army Air Forces to secure
data about performance and sta-
bility features to be incorporated
in the engineering of the later B-24
and B-29's.

Powered by four 3,400 horse-
power Allison in-line engines, the
huge plane has a wing span of two
hundred and twelve feet.

Colonel Boyd and his crew de-
parted from Davis-Monthan for
Wright field two hours after their
arrival.

What was once America's biggest, and least seen giant aircraft-the B-19-arrived at Davis-
Monthan Field last night to join a notable list of aircraft, stored here while awaiting construction
of an AAF museum at Wright Field, Ohio. The B-19 measures 212 feet tip to tip and her great
vertical stabilizer rises 42 feet in height. She is now powered with Allison liquid cooled engines,
and is still only exceed in size by the B-36.

So it's at the AF museum. Cool, Can't wait to go see it!

I recall seeing a photo of the cockpit section on this site a few years back. I suspect that even if the XB-19 had survived post-war it would have been scrapped following unavoidable decades in the open.

Between the wing taper and the sweep, those aircraft had numerous features that drive tip stalls and snap rolls.

Famed Planes
Dismantled At
Tucson Base

TUCSON, Apr. 1-(AP)-The
aircraft museum at Davis-Monthan
Air Force Base may be abandoned
in the near future, it was reported
Friday. The museum has been the
home of some of the most histor-
ical planes to come out of World
War II.

The Desert Airman, base news-
paper, says only 14 of the original
28 planes remain in the museum.
Twelve of the ships have been dis-
mantled and reclaimed for salvage.

Some of the remaining aircraft
are in various stages of dismantle-
ment. For months the famous
battle planes have been parked
next to hundreds of "cocooned"
B-29 superforts awaiting one last
move. This may be to a permanent
air force museum-or maybe to a
salvage yard to be sold for scrap.

One of the remaining ships is
the B-19 Guardian of the Hemi-
sphere. This is the only ship of
its kind ever built. It serves as
the flying laboratory that made
ppossible the present B-29s and
B-26s.

Another of the planes is the En-
ola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the
first atomic bomb August 6, 1945,
on Hiroshima, Japan.

The Nagasaki Boxcar is here.
This is the ship that dropped the
second atomic bomb which killed
100,000 Japanese and obliterated
the City of Nagasaki.

The plane that took the late
Wendell Willkie on his "one world"
flight has long been resting be-
neath the desert skies.

WHEN YOU SEE.....
"Shot From The Sky"
YOU'LL "GET A WAR JOB and STAY
ON YOUR JOB to FINISH the JOB"!
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"SHOT FROM THE SKY" is a thrilling Exhibit
of CAPTURED ENEMY EQUIPMENT Pre-
sented by the U. S. ARMY AIR FORCES

SUNDAY and MONDAY, JAN. 21st, 22nd

NORTH CENTRAL at McDOWELL

SPONSORED BY PHOENIX
CHAMBER of COMMERCE
and
LOCAL WAR AGENCIES

"Shot From the Sky" includes almost 10,000
pieces of captured Axis warplanes and featured
three planes still in flying condition-a Junkers
88 medium bomber captured in the Mediterra-
nean theater, a Japanese Zero captured at Buna and
a Messerschmitt 109 fighter taken at an African
airfield.

Shown for the first time in the United States
is a Nazi robot bomb captured on Normandy's
rocket coast. One of Hitler's V-1 vengeance
weapons used against London and the south of
England last summer, the buzz bomb, is accom-
panied by explanatory charts and diagrams.

Other display pieces include a Japanese "Oscar"
pursuit ship and fuselages of a JU-88, ME-110,
Focke-Wulf 190, Japanese Mitsubishi "Betty" bomb-
er, ME-110, and wings, engines, propellers, tail
sections and landing gears of almost every type
of German and Japanese fighter and bomber.

A detachment of 53 WACS and 60 enlisted
men, representing every combat air force ex-
cept the 20th, accompany the exhibit. WACS
help set up the displays, assemble the Axis air-
planes and act as guides, lecturers and ushers
when the exhibit is in progress.

FREE
STAGE
PERFORMANCES
Afternoons at 3:30
Evenings at 7:30

In addition to this spectacular "SHOT
FROM THE SKY" EXPOSITION ... FREE
stage performances, featuring famous radio and
orchestras from in and around Phoenix will be
presented from the largest portable stage in
the country each afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and
each evening at 7:30 o'clock.

This Advertisement Sponsored by
Sears, Your Friendly Store in Downtown Phoenix

Employment recruiting
booths will be main-
tained by the U.S. Em-
ployment Service, War
Manpower Commission
and the Civil Service
Commission.

With the above information, we can add the following aircraft to the collection:

• A6M, Unknown
• Fw 190 F-8/R1, likely 931884[1]
• G4M3 Model 34, 2134/T2-2205[2]
• Ki-43-IIb, likely 6430[3]
• Me 110, Unknown

See a post in another thread for more information about the relationship of the "Shot from the Sky" exhibition to contemporary instances around the country.

I thought the one with the "gills" cut into the accessory cowl was the one recovered from China, not Koga's?