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wendovertom
 Post subject: Pursuit of Precision
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While this is all about the walleye smart bomb - there are a couple of shots of B-29s being destroyed by walleyes in the videio. enough to make me cry!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgVsz_TnkE

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Really fortunate that quite a few B-29's made it out of China Lake at all.
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sandiego89 wrote:
Really fortunate that quite a few B-29's made it out of China Lake at all.

Not surprising at all, we are talking about the navy after all..... (sorry, I couldn't resist, bad fingers)

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