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24th Bomb Squadron B-29 Model, Mahogany, 1/94th Scale, Bomber

$299.00

Fly with the 24th Bomb Squadron in this handcrafted B-29 model. Each piece is carved from wood and handpainted to provide a piece you’ll love.

  • Length – 18 inches
  • Wingspan – 21.5 inches
  • Made from Mahogany
  • US Veteran Owned Business
  • The product is not intended to be used by children 12 years and younger.

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24th Bomb Squadron B-29 Model

Fly with the 24th Bomb Squadron in this handcrafted B-29 model. Each piece is carved from wood and handpainted to provide a piece you’ll love.

  • Length – 18 inches
  • Wingspan – 21.5 inches
  • Made from Mahogany
  • US Veteran Owned Business
  • The product is not intended to be used by children 12 years and younger.

B-29 Superfortress operations against Japan

Boeing B-29A-45-BN Superfortress 44-61784 6 BG 24 BS ‘Incendiary Journey’ on a 1 June 1945 mission to Osaka,Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Constituted in spring 1944 as a B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombardment squadron. When training was completed moved to North Field Tinianin the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific Area in January 1945 and assigned to XXI Bomber Command, Twentieth Air Force. Its mission was the strategic bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands and the destruction of its war-making capability.

Flew “shakedown” missions against Japanese targets on Moen Island, Truk, and other points in the Carolines and Marianas. The squadron began combat missions over Japan on 25 February 1945 with a firebombing mission over Northeast Tokyo. The squadron continued to participate in wide area firebombing attack, but the first ten-day blitz resulting in the Army Air Forces running out of incendiary bombs. Until then the squadron flew conventional strategic bombing missions using high explosive bombs.

The squadron continued attacking urban areas with incendiary raids until the end of the war in August 1945, attacking major Japanese cities, causing massive destruction of urbanized areas. Also conducted raids against strategic objectives, bombing aircraft factories, chemical plants, oil refineries, and other targets in Japan. The squadron flew its last combat missions on 14 August when hostilities ended. Afterwards, its B 29s carried relief supplies to Allied prisoner of war camps in Japan and Manchuria.

The squadron remained in Western Pacific, assigned to Twentieth Air Force on Okinawa. Maintained as a strategic bombardment squadron until inactivated due to budget reductions in late 1948. Some aircraft scrapped on Tinian; others flew to storage depots in the United States.

Strategic Air Command

Cold War Emblem of the 24th Bombardment Squadron
Reactivated in 1951 and redesigned as a heavy bomb squadron, the unit was initially issued with B-29s for training. It was equipped with B-36 Peacemaker intercontinental strategic bombers in 1953 for operational use. It began with B-36Fs; the featherweight B-36J was added, the squadron operating both types. These aircraft carried a yellow stripe on the tip of the vertical stabilizer, the lip of the jet intakes and the “nose cone” of the jet itself along with an ‘R’ inside a triangle as a tail code. SAC (Strategic Air Command), eliminated tail codes in 1953. In 1957 the B-36s were replaced by B-52E Stratofortresses and all squadron markings were eliminated. The squadron remained equipped with the B-52s until the closure of Walker AFB in 1967.

It was re-equipped with RC-135 Cobra Ball/Cobra Eye aircraft to support theater and national level intelligence consumers with near real-time on-scene collection, analysis and dissemination capabilities. The squadron was inactivated as part of the post Cold War drawdown in 1994 and replaced by the 45th Reconnaissance Squadron.

Operations and Decorations
Combat Operations: Combat in Western Pacific, 27 Jan-14 Aug 1945.
Campaigns: World War II: Eastern Mandates; Western Pacific; Air Offensive, Japan.
Decorations: Distinguished Unit Citations: Tokyo, Japan, 25 May 1945; Japanese Empire, 9-19 Jul 1945. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award: 1 May 1960 – 31 May 1962.

 

Army Air Corps Photo Iwo Jima,  Aircraft Salvaged
Army Air Corps Photo Iwo Jima,  Aircraft Salvaged
Army Air Corps Photo Iwo Jima,  Aircraft Salvaged

 

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