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Image 1 — USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses with the 462nd Bombardment Group at Piardoba Airfield in India, 1944
Image 2 — USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses with the 462nd Bombardment Group at Piardoba Airfield in India, 1944
Image 3 — USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses with the 462nd Bombardment Group at Piardoba Airfield in India, 1944
Image 4 — USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses with the 462nd Bombardment Group at Piardoba Airfield in India, 1944
Image 5 — USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses with the 462nd Bombardment Group at Piardoba Airfield in India, 1944
Image 6 — USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses with the 462nd Bombardment Group at Piardoba Airfield in India, 1944
Image 7 — USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses with the 462nd Bombardment Group at Piardoba Airfield in India, 1944
Image 8 — USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses with the 462nd Bombardment Group at Piardoba Airfield in India, 1944
Image 9 — USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses with the 462nd Bombardment Group at Piardoba Airfield in India, 1944
Image 10 — USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses with the 462nd Bombardment Group at Piardoba Airfield in India, 1944
Image 11 — USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses with the 462nd Bombardment Group at Piardoba Airfield in India, 1944
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USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses with the 462nd Bombardment Group at Piardoba Airfield in India, 1944

The first B-29s arrived at Piardoba Airfield in April 1944 and participated in the first US Bomber attack on the Japanese Home Islands since the 1942 Doolittle Raid on June 15, 1944.

By late 1944 it was concluded that staging B-29 operations against Japan out of bases in China and India was a logistical nightmare.

It was subsequently decided that the B-29s would be moved to bases on newly captured islands in the central Pacific and the 462nd was transferred to Tinian.

Photos by Bernard Hoffman
for LIFE Magazine.

u/Background-Island635 — 1 day ago
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The first phase of the Hagia Sophia project is complete. Now, it's time for texture and relief work.

I've completed the final micro-buttresses around the dome. As of today, the process has moved to the second phase: filling and texturing. In this phase, textural studies will be conducted on all parts of the original structure, essentially a relief process. Each part will be examined individually. The reason for this is that I will try to recreate the textural changes over the 1500-year period. Thank you to everyone who supported me throughout this process. Stay tuned.

u/Background-Island635 — 26 days ago