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Snautzer01 said:
Martin-Omaha B-29-30-MO 42-65367 City of Miami Battlin Bitch II 20th AF Guam. Flown by Capt John H. Keene
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This is an interesting photograph. Ol' Battlin Bitch II has no armament, no radar, and what looks like 3 windows in the forward bomb bay. Is this an unretouched photograph? Is there any information on what types of missions she was used for?
 
Might be a post war image?

Crew 2: 60th Squadron - 39th Bomb Group (VH)


Per this former crew member it was a path finder on night missions. Not to many night fighters for the Japanese so maybe they stripped the guns for night sorties.

Airman worked bomber's radar

A human calculator during World War II, Marvin Demanzuk thrived on slant range calculations and data programming. As a radar officer in the 60th Squadron, 39th Bomb Group, 314th Wing of the 20th Air …
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