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Old 02-18-2008, 02:08 AM   #1
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B-29 Haley's Comet under research

Does anybody know exact colors of the nose art "Haley's comet" of B-29?
The right one is my guess.

This is said painted on a Superfort A sq 22 870SQ 497BG 73BW 20th Air Force stayed on Saipan during 1944-1945.

On January 27, 1945, Haley's Comet got a flak hit on her bomb bay to fire above Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. She dropped back the formation, released bombs on the forest of Shizuoka city and finally rammed by Nick(Ki-45) to crash on Inba County, Chiba Prefecture east to Tokyo.

Three or four crews jumped into the air.
1/Lt David C. Williams, Copilot's paraschute did not open and could not survive.
Lt. Vere Daw Carpenter, Radar Operator and Sgt Olinto F. Lodovici, Tailgunner captured as POW and returned to U.S. after the war though I find no their own testimony about the incident at the moment.
2/Lt Joseph Bena, Navigator was regarded as KIA (Killed In Action).
I do not know if the KIA means he parachuted.

I and my friend are trying to visualise the rammed scene finally as precise as possible by CG on Web.

You can check more details at -

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Ki-45 Nick Manufacture Number 4067

Any advice will be appreciated.
Thank you.
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It might have looked like this.

I was born in Sendai city, northeast of Japan, in 1953.
There was a US base camp at Kawauchi which was located neaby my old house.
No military anymore because they left for the Korean War.
Only American style houses and gardens remained.
They were painted in shining white with window frame in fresh green.
Very beautiful. I missed American culture and studyed English much harder than any of my friends in the class.
My English teacher used to be working for the US Military as a translator. It sounded so fantastic.

Sorry this has nothing to do with the thread.
I happened to recall my old days.

Yes, everything was really exotic there!
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