Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1952 — Page 6

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TUESDAY, MAR. 18, 1052 . 4 . ho : Prepare B-47 | To Replace

'‘King' B-29

By MAX B. COOK Scripps-Howard Aviation Editer

MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Tampa, Fla., Mar. 18" The King is dead; long live the King" Just about tells the story of the proud B-29 long-range bomber and its faster, streamlined successor, the B-47 Stratojet. But the B-29 is not dying without a fight and It's still in there punching over Korea while the Stratojet is being groomed to take! over, | . In a small room, a few mem:bers of the rear echelon of the, famed 307th Bombardment Wing sit here among the records, watching with interest the reports of missions accomplished by their B-29s in Korea. Outside, the roar of B-47 Stratojets taking off in training offers a picture of days to come when the B-29 will be sent to pasture.

On Short Notice

For days just prior to the Korean war, the. 307th’'s B-29's and well-trained crews had been! prepared for any sudden call. It! came on Aug. 3, 1950, and the hastily summoned crews packed aboard and were on their way within 24 hours, Within only eight days they were bombing North Korea and have been at it steadily ever since. Maj. Warren R. Healy, now 305th Bombardment Wing Intelll-| gence officer here, was aboard the first B-29 on that flight, He par-| ticipated in a number of sorties over North Korea. “Not only did the B-29s, designed for high-level radar bomb-

THEY'VE BEEN AROUND-—Rob, left, and Richard Fischer of Harrison, N. Y., are already seasoned traveleres although their combined ages total only eight years. They are shown at a New

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assignments with great accuracy, but they have done about everything that a light bomber could do as strategic targets vanished,” he said. : Fly in Pattern

“Bridges are very hard to hit,” he added, “but three B-20s flying in a pattern eliminated near misses time and again in accurate pinpoint bombing.

“With crews used to dropping bombs weighing tons, they moved in on ground support with 100pound fragmentation bombs. They knocked out rails, ammunition dumps and installations also with pattern bombing.

“The bridge bombing had to be repeated many times, as many of the spans were built by Jap engineers who knew their stuff and they were easily repaired. On one occasion’ we knocked out five spans. When we returned eight days later, they were rebuilt and trafic was moving over them. The B-20 crews simply knocked them out again.”

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Use of the B-20s in pattern bombing has surprised many of the World War II pllots who flew A-26 Invader light bombers in the first pattern bombing of the war, The Invader, now known as the B-26, is a twin-engined, light fast, pisto bomber which has given fine ground support for United Nations in Korea. Early pattern bombing was conducted by some 18 or more Invaders. They would dive down in close formation from 10,000 to 8000 feet, level off and, at a signal, drop their bombs simultaneously, The bombs would totally blanket a target, such as a rectangular ammunition dump. With their much greater bomb-carry-ing capacity, fewer B-20s are needed for the same job.

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Three of the fighters have been completed and tested under various conditions. Although the engines now powering the planes are slow by today's almost sonic standards, the company feels better engines could be put in,

The fighters pack a potent battery of four 20-millimeter cannon and are pressurized for high altitude interception. - {» The flying boats are the three [gtant “Princess class’ ships that (statistics show could do the work of nine troopships over a given

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