History Question

[Ickie]

did a B-29 and a BF-109 ever meet in combat?

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee243/Euphgit/Bf109kvsB29.jpg

[Ferry_vO]

The US was the only one to use the B-29 during world war 2, and only over the PTO. The British and Russians had a few too, but only after WW2 ended.

The only time a B-29 would encounter a Bf-109 would be in a combat sim. ;)

[PRB]

I thought I read someplace that one B-29 was sent to the UK for evaluation or some such. Probably didn't run into any "bad guys" though.

[stiz]

we had a few in the 50s as a stand in whilst we got our own modern bombers, but i doubt any b-29 saw any combat in the ETO during ww2.

[Moses03]

Looks like PRB is on the right track.

"Although considered for other theaters, and briefly evaluated in England, the B-29 was predominantly used in World War II in the Pacific Theatre. The use of YB-29-BW (41-36393), the so-named "Hobo Queen," one of the service test aircraft flown around several British airfields in early 1944, was thought to be as a "disinformation" program intended to deceive the Germans into believing that the B-29 would be deployed to Europe. The Hobo Queen even seems to have been featured in a photo in the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter-the German newspaper's headline showing the photo of the Hobo Queen soon appeared in Boeing factory posters of the era."

From this site: http://www.skytamer.com/Boeing_B-29.html
(http://www.skytamer.com/Boeing_B-29.html)
http://i39.tinypic.com/2z4hbw2.jpg

I guess an encounter with a 109 was possible then.