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This aircraft is one of the about 20 B-29s that still exist. Ironically it is at Barksdale AFB. It is also probably the first airplane I ever saw even though I was only six weeks old.

Lt Smokovitz stayed in the military following the end of the war. He became a B-29 aircraft commander. Unfortunately on the 1 Oct 1946 the aircraft (44-87627) he was flying from Nebraska to California crashed near Buffalo Valley, NV after being hit by lightening in a thunderstorm. All eleven...

Lt Edward Brant's B-29 crew in early summer 1945

My father, 1st Lt Ed Brant, ferried a B-29 (44-87627) from California to Georgia in June of 1946. This picture was taken at an refueling stop at Barksdale field on the 6th of June. Just prior to landing my father flew over my grandparents house at low altitude. They lived 60 miles SW of...

Here's a picture of my father, Lt Edward Brant , and his copilot, William Smokovitz, at the controls of their brand new B-29 somewhere over Nebraska in July of 1945. The war ended the next month without them deploying to the Pacific.

Here are the orders for the movement

My father's crew was selected to fly a brand new B-24J to England in August 1944. Here's a picture of them in front of the plane before leaving. I'll post more pictures and the crew members name later. My father, Lt Ed Brant, is in the front row on your right and was the pilot/ac.

My father was a WW2 B-24J and B-29 pilot. He was in the 489th BG. I was born 9 months after the end of WW2. I am a retired engineer and military aviator. I flew the F-101F from 1972 to 1981 with the 111th FIS of the Texas Air National Guard. My current interest in aviation is flying R/C WW2...