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   Kimpo Air Force Base, South Korea, 23 Ocotber, 1951:  Three B-29s of the 307th BW landed with heavy battle damage.

     Photo on Left: Fogler's B-29,  #44-61816, after landing at Kimpo with over 500 holes in the airplane.
     Photo on Right:   Reeter's B-29, showing cannon damage that killed the navigator & wounded others.

Click here to see the crew who flew #44-61816 shortly after surviving the greatest air battle of the Korean War.

The third B-29, commanded by Major William Griner crashed on landing but all of the crew survived.
CLICK HERE to read a first hand account from Paul Dickerson, Rt. Gunner on Maj. Griner's B-29

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