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That is very cool!

Thanks again!!!!

So the Pilot (Co-Pilot on B-29's) survived?

That must have been rough going. We have a Pilot who was pulled at the last minute and his entire crew was lost. He wrote his wife and told her but it was another month or two before the other wives got the official word from the AAF.

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The rear hatch is for the flight crew to escape or egress for a belly landing or ditching. It is the only upper type of exit for the crew in the aft compartment. The tail gunner had his own hatch and the forward compartment had the engineers escape hatch as well as the pilots and co pilots windows as a secondary upper exit.

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the forward crew could also 'axe' out the astrodome as could the rear crew utilize the CFC dome.

This was usually SOP for a ditching attempt.

The upper rear hatch would be open during initial taxiing, both for ventilation of fumes from the APU as well as general ventilation for the rear compartment.

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