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  1. B-29

    B-29

    Me on a very cold February midwest day and a B-29 Superfortress painted to look like Col. Paul Tibbett's bomber the ENOLA GAY at the now defunct Chanute AFB in Rantoul,Illinois. The base is now the Octave Chanute Air Museum http://www.aeromuseum.org/ here is the web page . This is the largest...
  2. B-29 Superfortress

    B-29 Superfortress

    A angle with the entire B-29 Superfortress in the frame at Chanute Airforce Base . Then the largest training center for the USAF . They specialized in a Firefighting school, B-52 training and maintanace,There were missle silo's on the base inside of B-17 hangers. During WW2 all Army Air Corp...
  3. Enola Gay

    Enola Gay

    The now famous ,but then just another B-29 superfortress on the island of Tinian. The one exception was, it was parked out and away from all the other planes ,and under a 24 hour a day armed marine guard.The plane was named after the pilots mother. Colonel Paul Tibbets was the pilot of this...
  4. Enola Gay

    Enola Gay

    Enloa Gay returning from its famous filght over Hiroshima
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