This is my skin of Joltin' Josie, the Pacific Pioneer, a B-29 of the 873rd BS/498th BG. Josie was the first B-29 to fly into the Marianas on the 12th of October 1944 hence the name. Josie's pilot Major Jack Catton and his crew flew 24 successful missions over Japan before being transferred. However the aircraft crashed on takeoff on its very next flight, the resultant explosion killing all of the new crew.
I have left the rubber de-icing strips on this skin, Josie had them when she flew into Tinian for the first time. Most B-29 crews got rid of them pretty quickly though, both to save on weight and drag and because they easily got damaged in action. They weren't really needed in the Pacific anyway so Boeing eventually stopped fitting them.
