45th Bombardment Squadron Boeing B-29-40-BW Superfortress 42-24579  "Eddie Allen" of the 45th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group, XX Bomber Command.  Aircraft condemned, battle damage, West Field, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 1 June 1945
<p>This plane was named after Eddie Allen, a chief test pilot at Boeing Aircraft Co., Wichita, Kansas, who built and presented the plane to the Army Air Forces, The test pilot was killed in the second experimental B-29.
</p><p>left to right, back row: 
Major Ira V. Matthews, Lafayette, Alabama, pilot; 
1st Lt. Robert A. Winters, Wichita, Kansas, co-pilot; 
1st Lt. Herbert C. Hirschfeld, navigator, Chicago, Illinois; 
2nd Lt. Charles Behrle, bombardier, New Haven, CT; 
Flight Officer Louis F. Grace, engineer, 
S/Sgt John J. Mahli, crew chief, Ambridge, Pennsylvania, 
Sgt. Claude L. Bolin of Newton, Kansas, assistant crew chief. 
Left to right, front row: 
T/Sgt Fred H. Thompson, Ft. Worth, Texas, radio operator; 
S/Sgt S. V. Sienkiewicz, Cook County, Illinois; 
S/Sgt L. E. McBride, Springfield, Massachusetts; 
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S/Sgt. Samuel P. Winborne, top turret gunner, Raleigh, NC and Powers.
United States Army Air Forces
1944
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