Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:21 pm
Holy smokes! (Pun intended.) Don't you know his adrenaline was pumping! 
Gary
Gary
Last Resort
Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:21 am
according to Steve Birdsall's "Saga of the Superfortress", the B-29 next to Last Resort exploded as a result of a frag unloading accident; a frag dropped and went off, the fire could not be extinguished, and the whole thing went up. IIRC, total fatalities were 6 + 1 later. Last Resort was declared unrepairable & salvaged.
Last Resort had an interesting flight that resulted in it putting down in a field in China, after which it was shot-up by Japanese planes; locals supplied parts from a previously wrecked B-29 + fuel in drums and laid out over 4000 railroad ties on the soft parts of the field to improvise a runway. She got home from that one.
I'll scan the relevent pages if anyone is interested in the unabridged version...
cheers
greg v.
Last Resort had an interesting flight that resulted in it putting down in a field in China, after which it was shot-up by Japanese planes; locals supplied parts from a previously wrecked B-29 + fuel in drums and laid out over 4000 railroad ties on the soft parts of the field to improvise a runway. She got home from that one.
I'll scan the relevent pages if anyone is interested in the unabridged version...
cheers
greg v.