ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 84014
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| Date: | Tuesday 14 November 1950 |
| Time: | 12:15 |
| Type: |  Boeing B-29A Superfortress |
| Owner/operator: | 307th BWg /372nd BSqn USAF |
| Registration: | 44-61676 |
| MSN: | 11153 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 12 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Yalu River Bridges near Sinuiju -
 North Korea
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan |
| USAF Base K-14, Kimpo, South Korea (RKSS) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Boeing B-29A-40-BN Superfortress 44-61676: Delivered to USAAF 8May45. Assigned to 29th Bomb Group. Named ‘City of Flint’. Assigned to 343rd Bomb Squadron, 98th Bomb Group, Fairchild AFB, Washington. Re-Assigned to 372nd Bomb Squadron, 307th Bomb Group, MacDill AFB, Florida. TDY to Yokota AB, Tokyo, Japan for Korean War Operations, and named "Sad Sac".
This B-29 of the 307th BW, 372th BS was part of a strike against the Yalu bridges (to China) near Sinuiju, North Korea, and was escorted by some 20 F-80C Shooting Star fighters. B-29 44-61676 was heavily damaged by one MiG-15 of the 139th GIAP flown by Major G.I.Kharkovskii (his second B-29 kill) and unable to return to Okinawa. "Sad Sac" was one of nine B-29s sent to drop 1,000 bombs on a bridge at Sinuiju on that date. Two of the nine B-29s were damaged. The following day a much larger contingent of B-29s was once again sent to the Yalu River to try to destroy the bridge. The mission was not accomplished.
44-61676 made an emergency crash landing at USAF Base K-14 Kimpo, near Seoul, South Korea, also damaging some parked fighter aircraft in the process. No fatalities, but three wounded were reported.
Sources:
1. http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1944_4.html
2. http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/b29s/p_b29s_losses_damage.htm
3. Nose art of 44-61676: http://b29s.koreanwar-educator.org/noseart/sadsac2.jpg
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-Apr-2011 14:03 | Daniel Nole | Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Apr-2013 09:56 | Uli Elch | Updated [Registration, Cn, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Jun-2017 19:50 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Apr-2020 16:05 | Reno Raines | Updated [Operator, Source, Operator] |
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