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Re: Nov 21,1944 Ankang A/F B-29 Emergency Landings

Addition, 42-6362 crashed taking off from A-7 Pengshan. These are the B-29 airfields and their codes.


Assigned in INDIA as rear bases.

B-1 Kharagpur (468BG) also HQ XXBC.
B-2 Piordoba (462BG).
B-3 Charra (444BG) not suitable, to Dudhkundi July 1944.

B-4 Chakulia (40BG).

Forward bases in CHINA (all Chengtu area).
A-1 Hsinching ( 40BG).
A-3 Kwanghan (444BG).
A-5 Kiunglai (462BG).
A-7 Pengshan (468BG).


Charra was a British field for fighters / medium bombers, not for VH bombers (B-29s).


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