File:45th Bombardment Squadron Boeing B-29-40-BW Superfortress 42-24579.jpg

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English: 45th Bombardment Squadron Boeing B-29-40-BW Superfortress 42-24579 "Eddie Allen" of the 45th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group, XX Bomber Command. Aircraft condemned, battle damage, West Field, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 1 June 1945

This plane was named after Eddie Allen, a chief test pilot at Boeing Aircraft Co., Wichita, Kansas, who built and presented the plane to the Army Air Forces, The test pilot was killed in the second experimental B-29.

left to right, back row: Major Ira V. Matthews, Lafayette, Alabama, pilot; 1st Lt. Robert A. Winters, Wichita, Kansas, co-pilot; 1st Lt. Herbert C. Hirschfeld, navigator, Chicago, Illinois; 2nd Lt. Charles Behrle, bombardier, New Haven, CT; Flight Officer Louis F. Grace, engineer, S/Sgt John J. Mahli, crew chief, Ambridge, Pennsylvania, Sgt. Claude L. Bolin of Newton, Kansas, assistant crew chief. Left to right, front row: T/Sgt Fred H. Thompson, Ft. Worth, Texas, radio operator; S/Sgt S. V. Sienkiewicz, Cook County, Illinois; S/Sgt L. E. McBride, Springfield, Massachusetts;

S/Sgt. Samuel P. Winborne, top turret gunner, Raleigh, NC and Powers.
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Source US National Archives via http://www.40thbombgroup.org/Schutte2.html
Author United States Army Air Forces
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