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...
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...
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...
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