WAYNE CANWELL'S SHEMYA SCRAPBOOK
1948-1949

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I Served with Flight "B" of the 375th Reconnaissance Squadron V.L.R. (very long range) Weather from 1948 to 1949. I was an Aircraft Mechanic with this group and enjoyed every minute of it. Our Squadron consisted of WB-29's which flew weather missions over the North Pole and down into Japan. In April of '49 Flight "B" was transferred to Eielson AFB, where I served until 1950.

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#1. Wilkie and Wayne Canwell on WRB-29 # 4462197. Shemya,  1948.
   
#2. Wayne outside "Town Theatre." Shemya, 1948
   
#3. Crash of 462216 WRB-29. Shemya, winter of 1947-48.
   

 

This is the history of aircraft # 4462197

B-29A-65, s/n 44-62197

This B-29 was manufactured by Boeing Aircraft at Renton, WA and delivered to the USAAF on 4 Sep 1945.

Sep   1945 To Topeka AAF KS
Oct   1945 To Chico AAF CA
Jan   1946  To Merced AAF CA
Feb   1946 To Victorville AAF CA (storage)
Jul   1946 To Kelly AAF TX (storage)
Jun   1947  To 59th Reconnaissance (Weather, Very Long Range) Squadron Air Transport Command), Fairfield AAF CA
Oct   1947  To 375th Reconnaissance (WVLR) Squadron (Military Air Transport Service), Fairfield AFB CA
Jul     1948 To RB-29A
Nov  1948 To Elmendorf AFB AK (deployments to Shemya AFB AK)
Oct   1950 To Eielson AFB AK (to WB-29A)
Mar   1951 To 58th Strategic Reconnaissance (Medium) Squadron (MATS), Eielson AFB
Jan   1955  To Oklahoma City Air Material Area, Tinker AFB OK
Jul   1955  To 4750th Air Defense Wing (Air Defense Command), Yuma County AFB AZ (to TB-29A)
Sep   1955  Dropped from inventory by transfer to US Navy

 

 

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