Lest we forget
As my own tribute for remembrance day
2007 I photographed the remains of the Boeing B29
Superfortress "Overexposed" which crashed on the 3rd of
November 1948. These images were taken 59 years later, almost
to the day on the 9th November 2007 and show that a surprising
amount of the aircraft is still visible, including the
undercarriage legs, all four engines and a section of the
wing. Having flown over the Pennines many times including in
total cloud it was very sobering to see the remains of another
aerial photography aircraft.
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The crew were;
Pilot- Captain Landon P. Tanner, co-pilot- Captain Harry
Stroud; engineer- Sergeant Ralph Fields; navigator- Sergeant
Charles Wilbanks- radar operator David D. Moore, radio operator-
Staff Sergeant Gene A. Gartner; aerial photographers- Segeant
Saul R. Banks, Sergeant Donald R. Abrogast, Sergeant Robert I.
Doyle and Private First Class William M. Burrows. Also on board
were Corporal M. Franssen, Corporal George Ingram and Captain
Howard Keel
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