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narrow as hell, that for sure.

That porta potty after use would have been ripe for crew.

Didnt pilot have a sheet of bullet proof glass on top of instrument panel for protection against head on attack.

Atomic bomber called B-San by japs as respect.

Great video as usual. May I ask where that beautifully restored B-29 is located?

Dad was an AN/APQ-13 tech with the 6332nd Maint. Squadron at Kadena in the KW.

Looks like at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Pretty amazing collection there including a B-17, B-47, Model 10 Electra and SR-71 (among many others).

Thank you for this. Well done....

Man am I jealous.

The Japanese Unit 731 for Biological and Chemical development was weaponizing diseases and developing their own inhumane weapons and only stopped after their surrender. The military had formed civilian units to be armed with any weapon, including bamboo spears to be sacrificed against American artillery, machine guns, armor, and air support. It was have been a slaughter on an unseen scale. The Japanese were starving to death hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war and their army was still killing Chinese in China. Any weapon that forced them to surrender before the invasion saved many more times Japanese than the weapons inflicted.

Ashtrays ? When they're breathing bottled oxygen ? That's crazy!

@WWIIUSBombers >>> Great video...👍

I just waited for an hour and a half in the hot Carolina sun only to get rushed through 12 feet of the interior of a B-29 in about a minute... It was worth it!

My dad was assigned to Dallas Fort Worth as a mechanic. Prior to this he was at Pueblo CO on B24s. He told me many stories about the Supersfort teething troubles, especially with the engines. I recently reviewed some videos detailing problems with the fire control system, and it's obviou😮😮s that this aircraft was truly cutting edge technolog, so teething teething troubles were unsurprising. Ultimately its defects were corrected, and it served admirable until jet powered bombers supercede it. But my Dad always preferred the Liberator.

I've really enjoyed your WWII US Bomber series. At some point you may have to consider starting on a Cold War US Bomber series. They've got a B-47 and a B-52 at The Museum of Flight, right? Or, maybe, as a way of transitioning, you could cover the differences between the B-29 and the B-50 bombers. Thank you for all your work on this excellent series.

I was intrigued by the comment about shooting out searchlights, since I've often wondered about this. Please, do you have any more information?

Was the flight engineer a commissioned officer or an NCO?

Rad

. . . and manned by a 25-year-old pilot - the "old man" - and a crew of twenty-year-olds. Can you imagine?!

These videos are great. I love the primary sources.

I wish you would have gone slower.

If my seat was the toilet... I wouldn't let anyone use it ! 🐿

The ash trays at every station is a nice touch.

I enjoyed ! Where do I comment and how do I like? 🐿

Excellent !

Hell yea. Stsy frosty bro

Great video...👍

Great presentation. Thanks. Btw: At the Mellon Institute, built in the ‘20’s, there is a large auditorium, wood paneled and beautiful. Behind every single seat was a built in ashtray. In the 1980’s, I asked the Oldtimers if they were used, and the answer was yup. Imagine an auditorium with 200+ people all smoking like smokestacks.

You do a very good job as always. But, I can tell you're not a pilot

Great video...👍

My father was a WWII veteran and a 27 year career soldier. He was addicted to unfiltered cigarettes and died at the age of 70 from heart and lung disease. Growing up as an Army brat most of my friends fathers were also WWII veterans who all were addicted to cigarettes. I remember that they all began to die off in the 1980s. Seeing all the ashtrays installed in the B-29 crew positions it is not hard to understand why they had become addicted to cigarettes and how the cigarette corporations made bank during WWII.

'The Flight Engineer is the busiest member of the crew'. Well, the Navigator's response might be: "oh, really?" No doubt the FE can get very busy at times, but during cruise he is monitoring, fine tuning, and occasionally switching fuel valves. The navigator has a constant workload for most of the flight, and if he is shooting celestial or sun lines over water while making all his pre-comps, calculations, and plots he doesn't ever get much of a break. You gotta feel for navigators.

Great video...👍

Demonstrating each crew station ashtray was a nice touch.

Is there any documentation touching on effects of smoking during missions?

Do you have any other channels or are you a ww2 bomber only?

Damn considerate of them to give each man his own ashtray. I bet Jerry wouldn't have done that.

Awesome! Do you have any plans for videos on medium bombers and tactical bombing?

my uncle flew b29s over Japan. I have a picture of him playing somewhere

Thank you! Excellent tour.

Star Wars was partly inspired by The Battle of Britain film and the Millenium Falcon cockpit was more likely based on a Heinkel He111 bomber. At least one of the scenes is more a less a re-enactment of a scene from the Battle of Britain (except that the He 111, unlike the Millenium Falcon doesn't get away.)

Another excellent educational presentation. BTW, pointing out the “ash tray” cracked me up! 😂

Gotta love how every flight station has an ash tray lol

Where is this plane located? Thanks for the tour.

That was fun, thank you.

each vid gets better and better!

Heyhey

Cool!

Nothing should have been off the table, the Nips had what they had coming