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Did A B-29 Crash In Southern China Nov 5 1950?

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casey jones

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I have been keeping up with and following story since it came out in the China newspaper Global Times, I have searched all availble historys of B-29 losses for 1950...so far there is no record of a B-29 loss on Nov 5 1950, the China news report stated there were 15 US personnel on the B-29 among them a woman also. There appears to be some contradictions in the story, I have not seen any kind of news release from the Pentagon on this. I checked all the B-29 Groups operated from Japan 1950 to 1953, no record of a B-29 loss for November 5, 1950. How did the China news agency know it was a B-29? If it is true why was the B-29 operating so far south along the China coast? Could it have been a RB-29 that may have been flying some Recon mission? Thank You All For reading this.

Cheers

Casey:salute:
 
This is the only recorded loss for Nov 50:

10 November – A USAF B-50 Superfortress of the 43rd Bomb Wing on a routine weapons ferrying flight between Goose Bay, Labrador and its home base at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, loses two of four engines. To maintain altitude it jettisons empty Mark 4 nuclear bomb casing just before 1600 hrs. at 10,500 feet above the St. Lawrence River near the town of St. Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, about 90 miles NE of Quebec, Canada. HE in the casing observed detonating upon impact in the middle of the twelve-mile-wide river, blast felt for 25 miles. Official Air Force explanation at the time is that the Superfortress released three conventional 500-pound HE bombs.<sup id="cite_ref-Gibson_2-4" class="reference">[3]</sup>
 
Russia was known to have "replicas" of B-29s that they pilfered from "shuttled" aircraft.

I would sooner bet it was a Russian Replica rather than a U.S. bird.

Who knows?
 
Don't know anything about a Nov 15 1950 crash of a B-29, but the Soviet Union seized 3 B-29s that landed there after bombing Japan late in WWII. Stalin ordered Tupelov to copy them. The resulting Tu-4 was almost a rivet for rivet copy of the Boeing Superfort.
 
A freind of mine, who's father was a navgator on 29's and then 50's was in a "weather" :icon_lol: unit. And they were stationed in japan and made many flights close to and probley into china, and snooped around and a few that got to close were shot at and a few were down. Thats all he would say about it.
 
There were all kinds of covert intel collection ops going on in the early years of the Cold War. Would not be surprised if this aircraft was a RB-29 shot down during a photo mission, although the alleged female in the crew is really strange.
 
The Russians actually had our B-29's for a long time. The crews had to land there having run out of fuel, and Russian sent the flight crew's home without their planes. Took us a while to get them back, if we did.. I had heard about this story, but forgot some of the details.

They were totally overwhelmed with the Super Fortress. It was like a science fiction dream ship to them.

No reason to steal them though...



Bill
 
If it wasn't for the Ruskies copying the B-29, as the TU-4 "Bull", there would be no TU-95's, TU-116's etc.
Funkiest of the bunch, are the turboprop conversions China did to it's TU-4's
 
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