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    Airframe Family: Boeing B345 / B-29/B-50/P2B/F-13 Superfrotress / Tu-4
    Latest Model:B-29A-10-BN Superfortress
    Last Military Serial:42-93894 USAAF
    Construction Number:7301
    Compressed ID:Boeing B-29A-10-BN sn 42-93894 USAA...
    Latest Owner or Location:484th Bomb Squadron, 505th Bomb Group, North Field, Tinian, Mariana Islands

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-29A-10-BN by Boeing at Renton, Washington, USA.

    7 November 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-93894.

    By 1945

    Transferred to 484th Bomb Squadron, 505th Bomb Group, North Field, Tinian, Mariana Islands.
    Operated with markings: Lassy Too

    Circa 1945


    Photographer: Richard M. McFarlane via Fargo Air Museum
    Notes: Photo taken at Tinian Island.

    Circa April 1945

    Transferred to 444th Bomb Group, West Field, Tinian, Mariana Islands.
    Operated with markings: Time-a-Wastin

    By June 1945

    Transferred to 484th Bomb Squadron, 505th Bomb Group, North Field, Tinian, Mariana Islands.
    Operated with markings: W 41

    23 June 1945

    Destroyed.
    Takeoff accident at North Field, Tinian, due to engine failure. Was one of 27 B-29s that was to mine four harbors in Japan on the night of June 23/24, 1945, but crashed on takeoff and was written off. All of Lt Earl D. Hollenbecks crew survived, and the other 26 planes finished the mission.
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