Airplane Search

[agewood]

The plane I flew in on Guam was 42-93967, an F-13A photo recon modification of the B-29. The historical people at Maxwell Field tell me it departed the US via San Francisco April 44 for the Far East Air force and 5th AF .

If so, its only destination must have been the CBI . Since the 444th was on the same schedule, I was hoping there might be someone who could find this serial number in the record to confirm it was indeed at Charra or elsewhere in the CBI

Al Wood
19th BG Guam

[Guido Ransleben]

The only F-13 I saw at Dudhkundi, which is where the 444th BG went from Charra, was #42-93855. It was named DOUBLE EXPOSURE. According to my notes, it was in the 5th Photo Sq.

[gran]

If you click on Charles Harper's page, and on his website listed there, you can find two planes which apparently were photo recons, as they have camera missions painted on the nose. One was named SHUTTER BUG, and the other was named SNOOPING KID.