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Blondi

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This question just sort of poped into my head .I don't know why. Was there ever any instance of a B-29 being used in the European theater for any reason ?Not just Combat.I'm Just kind of curious.


Blondi:cost1:
 
The records seem to suggest not, but most of us are a bit too young to confirm that :d....The books say that with the theater air war and specifically strategic bombing winding down in the ETO as the B-29 came online, USAAF bomber command decided that the B-17 and B-24 were doing well enough to finish that job in their current capacities. The B-29 however had the range and capacity to singularly take the same kind of strategic campaign to the Japanese from captured bases in the Marianas and China, so there it was deployed. It would have just been classic overkill to waste it in the ETO in 1945 with no air opposition and every major city and industrial complex in Germany already in shambles.
 
Hi all,
How ever at the end of the war the UK bought several B29's.Enough to equip several squadrons.They were called Washingtons by the RAF.

Buddha13
 
In early 1941, the Air War Plans Divison created a future prosecution of the war in europe. The B-29 was still in the drawing board stages and mock up. But the AAF planners were well aware of its progress at Boeing. This future blue print was to launch B-29s from bases in North Africa to attack Berlin and return non-stop.

Cheers

Casey:d
 
I read years ago that at least one B-29 was flown to and parked at a base in England just to mislead the Luftwaffe's intelligence officers.
 
I can imagine what happened when the Luftwaffe photo interpreters saw that B-29 parked on the ramp. :d
 
The best I can add is that there where B-29's in Britain during the Berlin airlift but that was at the start of the cold war.
 
The B29 where never use in the ETO. Like Bear wrote that would have been a waste of USA resources. It would have been very interesting how they would have faired in the ETO!

The Germans of that era should be thankful they where never used in the ETO. They surely would have cause greater stress on Germany than the B17 and the B24 ever gave them. :mixedsmi:
 
Thank you everyone. I just wondered if some kind of special use B29 may have went there. Maybe some kind of early Black ops plane.Or a special deluxe transport version for a General officer . Something like that.

Blondi:cost1:
 
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