Warlordimi a écrit : ↑ven. mai 03, 2024 1:44 pm
Mon beauf est batteur dans un groupe récemment formé qui s'appelle les
Day Off Pilots (pour ceux que cela intéresse).
Leur album est sorti avec cette pochette. Il n'a pas su me dire d'où venait l'image utilisée.
Day Off Pilots.jpg
Vous avez déjà vu un B29 avec cette immatriculation sur la dérive? ZB3? Générée par IA?
Boeing B-29-30-BW S/N 4224494 attacking Hatto, Formosa on 18 October 1944
Delivered to USAAF 31May44. Departed Morrison AAF, FL for India on 3Jul44
Assigned to 792nd Bomb Squadron, 468th Bomb Group, Kharagpur, India 19 Jul 44. Named ‘Mary Ann’(468th BG, 792nd BS) overshot runway due to prop failure Jan 17, 1945. The aircraft was dispatched from Chengtu to attack Shinchiku Airdrome, Formosa. After taking off at an altitude of 6500 feet, the number three oil cooler shutter would not work. The aircraft returned to base and circled the field at Pengshan (A7). Losing altitude, the crew dropped their bombs at 300 feet. The blast was terrific, fire flashed all around, the front bomb bay bulkhead door was blown in and shrapnel splattered the airplane. The crew bailed out, 7 survived, 4 killed, some of the chutes didn't open in time.
Source: Joe Baugher
Autres infos:
India Combat Missions –16
Hump Missions –12
January 17, 1945, mission to Formosa.
42-24494 had an engine failure immediately after take off. When just over the edge of the field on the final approach 42-24494 had a runaway prop, forcing the plane to overshoot it’s landing.
Major McPherson, A/C, attempted to salvo his bombs “safe”
from an altitude of 250 feet but the bombs exploded upon hitting the ground, damaging the control cables. All of the crew bailed out, but four members were killed due to the fact that their chutes did not open in time. Three of these four men fell on a high hill, precluding any chance of their chutes having time to open.
Crew
Maj. Clarence C. McPherson –AC
1st Lt. Martin D. Roe -N
1st Lt. D.V. Irby –KIA
1st Lt. S.E. Gray –KIA
S/Sgt. R. Wilson –KIA
S/Sgt. William H. Shaw –KIA
merci
