B-29 Wrecks

[B29WereWolf]

After watching "Frozen In Time" again last night, wanting to know if there are any B-29 wrecks in the world that are intact, besides the one in Lake Mead?

 

[diddyriddick]

This might be a starting point....

List of surviving B-29 Superfortresses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Propellorhead]

I seem to recall that Somewhere like China Lake or Nevada nuke test sites etc, there were three B-29 parked in desert and left there because they were covered in radioactive fall out. I suspect one could by now attempt to clean them since many of redionuclides would have short half lives.

Hiroshima has barely detectable radiation from WW2 now.

 

[evangilder]

The three at China Lake were targets. The CAF went through the three to grab the best pieces to make "FiFi".

 

[vikingBerserker]

Wow, never knew that!

 

[cptsmith]

They pulled another from China Lake after Fifi. I beleive it is in Wichita being restored by Boeing retiree's. The nose art was "Doc" of the seven dwarves.

 

[B29WereWolf]

Thanks for the info. I thought that there were some wrecks in the Marianas area?