Linking up with the current B-29 rich FLYPAST here are pics of (probably)the first 2 UK visitors in March 1944(from AE59), text from ‘Washington times’ Issue 8(online) and October 1945 (from PLANES mag vol1 no1)….(note ‘Tony Spatts’ in the text is surely ‘Tooey’ Spaatz of the USAAC)
By: pagen01 - 5th May 2009 at 10:10
There was a C-46 on trials work with Boscombe during the latter part of the war, possibly that one?
By: longshot - 4th May 2009 at 23:16
C-46 Bovingdon Oct 45
Yes, that C-46 has always intrigued me….I believe C-46s were used for paratrooping then withdrawn around the time of the Rhine crossing and I’ve seen a photo of a drab C-46 in Sweden where the US did a lot of transport flying in 44/45 ( but mostly with C-87s/CB-24s)
If you want to see the fate of CAT C-46s in China search Birns plane source:life , Birns airplanes source:life, Hong Kong Airport source:life, and Chennaults planes source:life in Google Images
By: J Boyle - 4th May 2009 at 22:12
Wonder if the ruse fooled the Germans?
BTW: Note the C-46 in the second photo…wasn’t it a rather rare ac in the UK during the war/immediate postwar?
By: longshot - 4th May 2009 at 21:00
First B-29s in the UK
Of course the LH pic (of the YB-29 Hobo Queen) is IN the current FlyPast:o …it made its UK landfall at St Mawgan, Cornwall
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