How's your B-29 'counting' skills ...

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7557

Here's a 'bunch' of B-29's for ya .... but don't bother trying to count as there's more than a 100 and less than 10,000 and that works for me.

This first photo we all have probably seen many times before from the LIFE archives, but the second photo of the same location is rather rare. You can clearly see that big ole B-19 down there in both photos.

DM Arizona 1947

B-29's Of The 20Th AF Assembled On Baker Runway Saipan Marianas Islands To Load Food And Clothing To Be Dropped To POW Camps. 314Th Bombardment Wing 1945

Guam 1945

Ramey AFB 1952

Boeing B-29 Superfortresses Of The 21st Bomber Command Parked On The Line On Iwo Jima Bonin Islands 1945

B-29's of the 313Th Bomb Wing B-29 Base Tinian 20Th Air Force 1945

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:03 pm

nice pics Mark, thanks as usual.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7557

Welcome as usual ... here's some more to count, easier when their in the air.

Capable Of Carring A Heavier Bomb Load Farther Than Any Other Plane Flown During World War Ii, Boeing B-29 Superfortresses' Took The War To The Japanese Homeland. Marianas Islands. 1945

A Formation Of Boeing B-29 Superfortresses, Based On Guam, Marianas Islands. May 1945

Formation Of Boeing B-29 Superfortresses, Enroute To Bomb Enemy Installations. 1945

A Formation Of Boeing B-29 Superfortresses, Based On Guam, Marianas Islands. May 1945

B-29's 19th Bomb Group POW supply drop missions flown from August 27 - September 20, 1945

Formation Of Boeing B-29s Over Japanese Unidentified Installation 1945

Formation Of Boeing B-29'S Over Japanese Coast 1945

North American P-51D Mustangs Escorting Boeing B-29 Superfortresses out of Iwo Jima 1945

wendovertom · **Posted:** Thu Oct 17, 2013 4:41 pm

Thanks Mark! It is just amazing to see these photos. the last one of Tinian - if you could pull back, the base hospital was to the right of the photo further up a small hill. I am told that the surgeons and orderlies could stand on the ridge abouve the field and watch the flights depart and come in - depending on what they saw they could be ready for the injuries before they arrived. To be there in 2010 it is so overgrown with jungle it looks nothing like this photo - just amazing.

Tom P.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7557

Your welcome Tom, actually what amazed me was over on Nathan's website, on a thread I posted over there, if you scroll down a bit you'll see the area where the A-bomb(s) were loaded onto the B-29's. fascinating couple of photos one of the members over there posted. Neat stuff.

http://usaircraft.proboards.com/thread/ ... -enola-gay

jamesintucson · **Joined:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:42 am **Posts:** 546

[quote="Mark Allen M"]Here's a 'bunch' of B-29's for ya .... but don't bother trying to count as there's more than a 100 and less than 10,000 and that works for me.

This first photo we all have probably seen many times before from the LIFE archives, but the second photo of the same location is rather rare. You can clearly see that big ole B-19 down there in both photos.

New Mexico 1947

New Mexico 1947

These two are Davis-Monthan Field in Tucson, Arizona. The B-19 was certainly retired here and the second photo says "DM FLD" up at the top in the Air Force photo ID line.

James

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7557

Correct you are, thx much. Original post corrected.

Guess I'll hijack my own thread a bit and post some Marianas Island photos. (Saipan, Guam, Tinian) Sources for most all the photos in this thread (U.S. Air Force Photos) Fold3 website.

Aerial View Of Tinian, Marianas Islands, Taken From A Consolidated B-24 Liberator Of The 864Th Bomb Squadron, 494Th Bomb Group On 22 November 1944

B-24's over Guam, Marianas Islands

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Of The 509Th Composite Group, Returns To Its Base On Tinian Island, Marianas Islands, After Dropping The First Atomic Bomb

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Returns To Its Base On Guam, Marianas Islands

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Returns To Its Base On Tinian Island, Marianas Islands

Boeing B-29s Parked By Control Tower At An Air Base In Tinian, Marianas Islands. 11 April 1945

MARIANAS ISLANDS, BOMBING,TINIAN

P-51's over Guam, Marianas Islands

Bell-Atlanta B-29B-35-BA Superfortress (sn 42-63688) named "Loaded Dice" from the 15th BS, 16th BG, 20th AF

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7557

Boeing B-29 Superfortresses At North Field, Guam, Marianas Islands. 14 April 1945

In August 1944 This Area In Guam Was Wilderness Except For A Japanese Fighter Strip. A Year Later It Had Become Harmon Field

MARIANAS ISLANDS INVASION

MARIANAS ISLANDS, GUAM

Martin-Omaha B-29-15-MO Superfortress (sn 42-65224) V-Square 30 from the 878th BS, 499th BG, 20th AF Saipan

MARIANAS ISLANDS

Panorama Of Agana Field On Guam, Marianas Islands Taken 5 November 1944

Panorama Of Agana Field On Guam, Marianas Islands

spiteful21k · **Joined:** Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:42 pm **Posts:** 21

That first picture makes you realise how big the XB-19A actually was.

wendovertom · **Posted:** Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:43 pm

Here is a shot of the Tinian control tower in 2010 - this side is facing the B-29 in the original photo but it gives you an idea of how grown in the jungle is now - where there was NOTHING there is a heavy jungle!

Tom P.

flightsimer · **Posted:** Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:07 pm

I counted 190 B-29's even in the very first photo and one B-19

B29sms · **Joined:** Thu Oct 24, 2013 3:29 pm **Posts:** 4

Mark,

Your fourth Picture down in your original post you have marked as 'Guam 1945' is not Guam. That is the assembly point for one of the PW Supply Drop missions. That photo was on Saipan.
Great PW reference info here.

http://home.comcast.net/~winjerd/Supply/splymssn.htm

You have some great photos!!!! Some i have never seen before.

Thanks!!!!

PbyCat-Guy · **Posted:** Thu Oct 24, 2013 10:16 pm

I've been trying to find photos of my uncle's B-29, would you have any? A Square 28, 870th Squadron, 497th Group, 73rd Wing. "Were Wolf"

deakon509 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 14, 2014 10:46 am

thanks mark wonderful photos, would you have any more of tinian. I would love to find photos or maps of north field,hardstands and taxiways.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7557

Yes I have a boatload of photos of Tinian in some folders. You can also check the Fold3 archives as there is days, months and years of photos in there. (If you haven't already done so)

Mark

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