(For some reason, this article doesn't appear in the main or blog page - so I'm reposting it)I thought this was story was far fetched. But USAAF B-29 bombers indeed operated from India against Japanese strongholds in South East Asia - bombing Japanese controlled Singapore and Malaya.
One of the "Super Fortress" bombers crashed in the sea near Pulau Aur.
Details here:
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-29/42-24704.html
Its serial number was 42-65226 - crashed in 11th January 1945.
More photos of B-29s here:
http://www.444thbg.org/677thbombsq.htm
Apparently a group of divers discovered the wreck in the late 1990s.
For some reason - this blog entry did not appear in the main page or blog page - first time. I don't know why; so I'm reposting it.
2 comments:
Was the wreck so deep that only technical divers are able to reach it? I read the 2 urls, there wasn't any mention of the wrecks being found.
Not clear there: but the claim is made here:
"25 of 47 B-29 bombers from the 58th BW dispatched from Calcutta attacked two dry-dock facilities at Singapore; and fifteen B-29's attack alternates on Penang Island. Two B-29 bombers were lost. (Postville Express and another B-29 serial number 42-65226, which was reported ‘Last Seen Over Mersing’. Few years ago a group of divers found an intact B-29 in the Kuantan water, which turned out, may be the missing B-29 bomber 42-65226.)"
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/60th/1945/1-45.html
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