Update Hog Wild 500BG/882BS

[donna43]

A well known incident. http://www.yellowairplane.com/Book_Reviews/B-29_Superfortress_over_Korea_3rd_Atomic_Bomb/1-B-29_Superfortress_Over_Korea_Atomic_Bomb.html

Suggesting a new B-29 skin Hog Wild  (yes made changes)

Do it myself don't have a clue on how to do it or the patience.

Found a color photo on what the nose art looks like minus Fever From The South Pacific, it would look the same as the tail code done by Coprhead using Z SQUARE 28.
Saw a photo somewhere of a 500BG/882BS with it's serial # on rudder using 4-70138.

[Krusty]

I might consider it except for a couple of details:

First, it was well after VJ day. The war was over.

Second, it sounds like it was a spy/recon mission, not a combat mission.

I do have a B-29 in mind to do, but I would shy away rom Hog Wild unless you had any info on its use in WW2 (even as much as a month earlier).

[donna43]

Dug up some info:         Boeing B-29-80-BW Superfortress Built Boeing plant in Renton,WA

0138 as in photo           Ground Crew.......  http://www.b-29hogwild.com/Remembering_the_B-29_Hog_Wild.html    http://www.b-29hogwild.com/Photo.html#11



   The Hog Wild was a B-29 heavy bomber housed in the 882nd Bomber Squadron, 500th Bomber Group, 73rd Bomber Wing of the 20th Air Force. The flight crew and aircraft were based on the island of Saipan. Two weeks after the Hog Wild had flown its last combat mission over Osaka, Japan, the flight crew was sitting in briefing meetings for a mercy or humanitarian mission to the Konan POW Camp, where British and Australian prisoners of war were located, outside of the port city of Hamhung in northeast Korea. According to radar operator Doug Arthur (1945), navigator Gene Harwood (1945) and squadron flight engineer Robert Campbell (1945), the aircraft took off for Iwo Jima at 3 am on the morning of August 29 with ten of the eleven members of the fight crew (Left gunner Cliff McGee did not fly.) and three observers, who were actually members of the ground crew (R. Rainey, personal communication, September 20, 2003).

[perdue3]

GO VOLS

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[viking73]

Like Krusty said, you are sighting sources of a post WW2 nature. If you can find information of bombing missions during the war then that would qualify it to be acceptable for skinning in AH. It sounds like there should be given the close time frame. In the Story that I linked below, it does say it was on combat missions prier to the humanitarian mission you're sighting. According to the B-29, Registry of Planes, there were 2 B-29's on supply missions to POW camps in Korea shot down by Russian Yak's. Is an interesting STORY. But from my reading it is false that it was anything but a mission to get supplies to a British/Australian POW camp.

1. 882nd Bomber Squadron, 500th Bomber Group, 73rd Bomber Wing of the 20th Air Force
2. last combat mission over Osaka, Japan
3. B29 Model B-29-80 Serial Number 44-70136

[donna43]

Did alot of reading from the b29.org from the 500th BG  Daily Journal and found this:
 
On the night of 1-2 August the 73rd Bomb Wing sent 184 B-29's in a maximum-effort incendiary attack againstthe city of Toyama on the west coast of Honshu. The city had been warned by leaflets dropped the day beforethat it was on the list of possible targets. The 500th Bomb Group put up 42 aircraft for this mission. Theparticipating planes and crews were as follows:Z-2, "20th Century Sweetheart", Alexander Z-3, "Ann Dee", H. JacksonZ-4, "Black Magic", Walker Z-5, "There'll Always Be A Christmas", PowersZ-6, "Booze Hound", FoxZ-7, McNamer Z-8, "Duke of Albuquerque", MitchellZ-9, "Nina Ross", CovingtonZ-11, "Lucky Eleven", HallZ-12, Taylor Z-14, RogersZ-15, "Fire Bug", PearsonZ-16, "Je Reviens", BowersZ-19, "Sharon Sue", PostZ-21, "Barbara Ann", PierceZ-22, "Silver Thunder", RobertsonZ-23, "Ramblin Roscoe II", BrannockZ-24, "Pride of the Yankees", Sawyer Z-26, RothrockZ-27, "The Cannuck", QueenZ-28, "Hog Wild", Sasser Z-29, "Gravel Gertie", Mock (an 881st crew flying an 882nd plane)Z-33, "Slick Dick", HaasZ-34, "Frisco Nannie", GerrityZ-35, "Pacific Queen", BrunsZ-36, "Li'l Abner", AldermanZ-37, "Belle Ruth", CollinsZ-39, CoffmanZ-41, "My Pride and Joye", Van TrigtZ-43, "Ben's Raiders", SmithZ-46, HinderksZ-47, DearbornZ-48, HoffmanZ-49, "Fourth Marine Division", BlackZ-50, "Fancy Detail", F. ParsonsZ-51, "Tail Wind", WhittenZ-52, "20th Century Sweetheart", SichelZ-53, "The Ancient Mariner", ConnellZ-55, "Janice E.", RyanZ-56, BishopZ-57, Miller Z-58, "Marylyn Gay", Adamson
 
 
On the night of 5-6 August the 73rd and 314th Bomb Wings struck the city of Nishinomiya, located on Honshubetween Osaka and Kobe, in another incendiary attack. The 500th Bomb Group put up 35 aircraft for this mission. As the lead Group on this raid, the 500th supplied the "wind run" aircraft, meaning a plane sent ahead todetermine and radio back wind speed and direction over the target. Assigned to this duty was Z-16, "JeReviens", McNamer crew, which also carried a full load of bombs to drop on the target after they completed their initial mission.The 500th was also tasked with supplying two radar jamming aircraft. These planes, carrying slightly reduced bomb loads, were to precede the formation by 30 minutes, bomb the target, then climb to about 17,000 feet and circle the target area for an hour and a half operating their radar jamming equipment. Two veteran planes andcrews were selected for this duty -- Z-33, "Slick Dick", Haas crew, and Z-53, "The Ancient Mariner", Connellcrew.Of the remaining 32 planes, 12 were to act as pathfinders, taking off first and marking the target area. Thepathfinder planes and crews were as follows:Z-2, "20th Century Limited", Alexander Z-10, "Punchin' Judy", Mock Z-15, "Fire Bug", Pearson Z-19, "Sharon Sue", Post Z-23, "Ramblin Roscoe II", Rothrock Z-28, "Hog Wild", Sasser Z-39, Coffman Z-32, "Fever from the South", Gillert Z-42, "Supine Sue", Bishop Z-46, McDowell Z-47, Dearborn Z-58, "Marylyn Gay", Adamson

[donna43]

Did alot of reading from the b29.org from the 500th BG  Daily Journal and found this:
 
On the night of 1-2 August the 73rd Bomb Wing sent 184 B-29's in a maximum-effort incendiary attack againstthe city of Toyama on the west coast of Honshu. The city had been warned by leaflets dropped the day beforethat it was on the list of possible targets. The 500th Bomb Group put up 42 aircraft for this mission. Theparticipating planes and crews were as follows:Z-2, "20th Century Sweetheart", Alexander Z-3, "Ann Dee", H. JacksonZ-4, "Black Magic", Walker Z-5, "There'll Always Be A Christmas", PowersZ-6, "Booze Hound", FoxZ-7, McNamer Z-8, "Duke of Albuquerque", MitchellZ-9, "Nina Ross", CovingtonZ-11, "Lucky Eleven", HallZ-12, Taylor Z-14, RogersZ-15, "Fire Bug", PearsonZ-16, "Je Reviens", BowersZ-19, "Sharon Sue", PostZ-21, "Barbara Ann", PierceZ-22, "Silver Thunder", RobertsonZ-23, "Ramblin Roscoe II", BrannockZ-24, "Pride of the Yankees", Sawyer Z-26, RothrockZ-27, "The Cannuck", Queen Z-28, "Hog Wild", Sasser Z-29, "Gravel Gertie", Mock (an 881st crew flying an 882nd plane)Z-33, "Slick Dick", HaasZ-34, "Frisco Nannie", GerrityZ-35, "Pacific Queen", BrunsZ-36, "Li'l Abner", AldermanZ-37, "Belle Ruth", CollinsZ-39, CoffmanZ-41, "My Pride and Joye", Van TrigtZ-43, "Ben's Raiders", SmithZ-46, HinderksZ-47, DearbornZ-48, HoffmanZ-49, "Fourth Marine Division", BlackZ-50, "Fancy Detail", F. ParsonsZ-51, "Tail Wind", WhittenZ-52, "20th Century Sweetheart", SichelZ-53, "The Ancient Mariner", ConnellZ-55, "Janice E.", RyanZ-56, BishopZ-57, Miller Z-58, "Marylyn Gay", Adamson
 
 
On the night of 5-6 August the 73rd and 314th Bomb Wings struck the city of Nishinomiya, located on Honshubetween Osaka and Kobe, in another incendiary attack. The 500th Bomb Group put up 35 aircraft for this mission. As the lead Group on this raid, the 500th supplied the "wind run" aircraft, meaning a plane sent ahead todetermine and radio back wind speed and direction over the target. Assigned to this duty was Z-16, "JeReviens", McNamer crew, which also carried a full load of bombs to drop on the target after they completed their initial mission.The 500th was also tasked with supplying two radar jamming aircraft. These planes, carrying slightly reduced bomb loads, were to precede the formation by 30 minutes, bomb the target, then climb to about 17,000 feet and circle the target area for an hour and a half operating their radar jamming equipment. Two veteran planes andcrews were selected for this duty -- Z-33, "Slick Dick", Haas crew, and Z-53, "The Ancient Mariner", Connellcrew.Of the remaining 32 planes, 12 were to act as pathfinders, taking off first and marking the target area. Thepathfinder planes and crews were as follows:Z-2, "20th Century Limited", Alexander Z-10, "Punchin' Judy", Mock Z-15, "Fire Bug", Pearson Z-19, "Sharon Sue", Post Z-23, "Ramblin Roscoe II", Rothrock Z-28, "Hog Wild", Sasser Z-39, Coffman Z-32, "Fever from the South", Gillert Z-42, "Supine Sue", Bishop Z-46,

[donna43]

Was trying to totally erase the quote.   

[donna43]

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