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The name of the B-29 was the Hog Wild The Flight of the Hog Wild - by Bill Streifer and Irek Sabitov While the crew was interned for sixteen days at a former Japanese POW camp in Hungnam, northern Korea, Soviet and American commanders traded angry cables. Eventually, the B-29 crew was...

On August 29, 1945, an American B-29 pilot on a POW supply mission over northern Korea, refused to land on a Soviet-controlled runway, claiming it was "too short." When he, instead, flew his B-29 (called the Hog Wild) out to sea, two Russian Yaks pursued him out to sea and fired at the...