Month: November 2023

The crew of B-29 Superfortress 42-24598 “Waddy’s Wagon”, 20th Air Force, 73rd Bomb Wing, 497th Bomb Group, 869th Bomb Squadron, the fifth B-29 to take off on the first Tokyo mission from Saipan on November 24, 1944, and first to land back at Isley Field after bombing the target.

Crew members  posing here to duplicate their caricatures on the plane. Light-hearted humor in the face of death and destruction. That generation were some incredibly brave guys…