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If you get a free account on Scribd, you may download a 47 MB file named Resume, 20thAF Missions. It is a summary of all of the missions flown by B-29 Wings from the Marianas Islands during WWII. The reports include the altitudes for the missions flown. Also on Scirbd, you may download...

I find it interesting this thread evolved from B-29 fighter escorts to fuel economy. I wasn't aware that fighters escorted the bombers until I read some items in a different thread from the fighter perspective. I knew of single B-29s being the enroute navigation services for fighters, mama...

The 315th Bomb Wing was the first B-29 unit the use the APQ-7, Eagle RADAR. The antenna appeared as a 16 ft wing below the fuselage between the bomb bay. It replaced the APQ-13 RADAR. Both RADARS were considered Bombing Through Overcast or BTO RADARS. The 315th only flew the B-29B, which...

Regarding the original thought about the Army Air Forces aligned under a single HQ, that didn't hold true in the theaters of operation for tactical air power. The theater commanders were in charge of the day to day operations of the air units in his theater. When the B-29s came into the...

Just to be clear, Joltin Josie was not B-29A. There were three specific models of B-29 used in WWII. The B-29, B-29A, and B-29B were those models. The A model was only built in Boeing Renton and had a different wing root assembly than the other B-29 models. The B-29 (no suffix letter) was...

Sorry to resurrect an old thread. I only recently found this forum. Regarding the AN/APG-15 on the B-29B. I have found that it really didn't work that well. I have transcribed the monthly histories for the 16th Bomb Group that identified problems with the -15 that prompted a visit to Guam...