B-29 Superfortress Operation Against Germany
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Did the B-29 Superfortress operate in Europe in WW2 - the answer is 'yes', in one top secret military operation against the Germans.
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This guy has the best documentary voice I've ever heard. I could listen to him talk about anything.
Oddly satisfying to see B-29s with a coat of olive drab.
"...including the American 22,000-pound 'Amazon bomb'...."
This guy makes every WWII buff feel like a total casual.
"It Was Scrapped" this word always send a shudder down my spine.
My uncle flew the Hump during the war as a flight engineer, then later flew out of Chengdu on bombing raids to Japan. After the war he became a civilian instructor of flight engineers at a Texas air base. So this episode has particular interest to me.
Hi I am nearly 82 now but when I was a lad of 14 at school I was in the RAF section of the cadet force. We had a summer camp week at RAF Marham when the B1 Washingtons were there. Their main task was to fly for I believe about 10 hours around the north of Scotland to check for any Russian aircraft incursions. This was before the radar early warning chain was up and running.
I enlisted in the USAF in 1960 and served at a base in Germany with several WWII veterans in my unit. I began reading the history of the war at that time and never stopped. Mark Felton's videos make me feel like an American high school student who cannot find Germany on a map.
The B-29 was far more sophisticated than most people realize, and even had a true "fly-by-wire" control system. Except it wasn't the flight controls, but the gun laying system. The gunner aimed his sight head to track and range the target and the central fire control computer, about the size of a small refrigerator, used that data as an aiming command, provided electronically through electronic synchros at the sight head. It wasn't just remote control as in pointing a sight and the system points the guns in the same direction remotely, The gunner was telling the computer the target's azimuth, elevation and range relative to the sight as an electronic command, and the computer figured out where to point the guns, allowing for parallax error, true airspeed, pressure altitude, temperature, 50 cal ballistics, and target lead angle, and drove the turrets to where it calculated they needed to point.
The B-29 is surprisingly fast for a piston-engine bomber of its size. In a lot of airshows, it sometimes needs to fly a display circuit and stay at a slower speed with B-17s, DC-3s, and the like, but when it can make a pass all on its own, it's pretty impressive.
The B-29 project cost more then the Manhattan project! The streamline engine nacelles on the B-29 worked fine at low altitudes but at higher elevations the engines overheated. Later B-29s had larger openings, plus some extra vents. But flying fast at 32,000ft taxed the engines and used a lot of fuel, so General Lemay ordered the flights to fly lower and slower, and later to increase accuracy, even lower. A lot of people thought that flying such an expensive high altitude bomber at low altitudes was a waste of time and money. But improved lubricants, better fuel systems and much better aiming using radar eventually made them more effective. Note in one of the photos a B-29 has the experimental quad 50cal.
My dad was stationed in La Rochelle in the 50s. He had a Navy buddy who operated a fire boat out of the sub pens. The allies had bombed the hell out of those sub pens and through all that effort my dad said the roof of the pens only sported little divots where the bombs landed. He said the Germans must have gotten a few laughs about that!
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My dad was stationed at RAF St Mawgan, working on the crash crews during the latter part of the war and I remember him telling me about this aircraft. Cheers Mark, yet another fascinating video.
You find the most interesting operations about WWII. I have bookcases full of history books but you continue to surprise me, Mr. Felton. Don’t stop.
Once again, every time you think you have heard every WWII story, I'm hit with something completely unknown, like a bomb from a B29
My father was a mechanic on the Dyin Duck, a weather B29 that flew into hurricanes and sent the info to the Allies.