{"id":57656,"date":"2024-11-04T23:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57656"},"modified":"2024-11-09T23:36:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T22:36:52","slug":"a-moor-in-england-containing-the-remains-of-a-b-29-bomber-that-crashed-in-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/04\/a-moor-in-england-containing-the-remains-of-a-b-29-bomber-that-crashed-in-1948\/","title":{"rendered":"A moor in England containing the remains of a B-29 bomber that crashed in 1948"},"content":{"rendered":"

At 10:15 a.m. on November 3, 1948, a U.S. Air Force Boeing B-29 took off on its final flight.<\/p>\n

The secret airplane of Lake Mead: A B-29 that sank in a classified incident in 1948<\/a><\/rel>
\nThe 'Bomber Glacier': The wreckage of a B-29 on a remote mountain of Alaska<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

Takeoff took place at the British base of RAF Scampton<\/strong>, in the heart of England. The B-29 was a well-known bomber in World War II. This model was the one that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The protagonist of this story was an RB-29A, serial number 44-61999<\/strong>, a bomber modified for photo reconnaissance missions.<\/p>\n

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A photo of the \"Over Exposed\" taken at Northwest Field, Guam, between 1945 and 1946 (Source: Reddit<\/a>).<\/div>\n

This aircraft was nicknamed \"Over Exposed\" and photographed nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll<\/strong> in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean in July 1946. In Europe, the Over Exposed\" was one of the aircraft that took part in the Berlin Airlift,<\/strong> bringing supplies to the western sector of the city after it was blockaded by the Soviets. At the time of takeoff from RAF Scampton, the aircraft was attached to the Strategic Air Command's (SAC) 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The crew of the \"Overexposed\" during nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946 (Source: Historic Aviation Military<\/a>).<\/div>\n

Due to poor visibility caused by low cloud cover, this RB-29A crashed near the Higher Shelf Stones at Bleaklow,<\/strong> a moorland 600 metres above sea level in Derbyshire, at around 11:00 in the morning. All 13 occupants of the aircraft (11 crew and 2 passengers) died in the accident.<\/strong> An RAF rescue team located the wreckage that same day, at dusk. The bodies were removed the following day. There are still remains of the \"Over Exposed\" at the crash site today,<\/strong> as we can see in this video posted by Stephen J. Reid<\/a> a few days ago:<\/p>\n