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Good shots!
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Great thread on the Black Widow. I have need of photos of 42-5534 Shoo Shoo Baby and 42-5544 Lady Gen if any can be found.
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Good shot. Note drop tanks.
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Wonder if this is the P-61 that shot down a B-29?
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read the above text, at the time all delivered to Boeing for the B-29
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And so continues another myth - the turretless P-61s lost out to the greater needs of the B-29 (this in the Osprey page included above). Instead, the truth is that the P-61 turrets weren't working for a variety of reasons. Rather than install them, they were put on the shelf waiting for an effective fix. The B-29 folks noticed the "extra" turrets lying around and grabbed them - of course, there were mods necessary to the B-29 and the turret in order to marry them together...
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