B-32sday

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 06/30/2015 at 10:05 • Filed to: planelopnik

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The Consolidated B-32 Dominator was developed as a back up to the Boeing B-29 Superfortress should that plane turn out to be unsuccessful. Thus, only 118 were ever built. The type saw limited service at the end of WWII as both a bomber and a reconnaissance plane, and was the last American aircraft to see combat in the war when two B-32s on a reconnaissance mission were attacked over Tokyo three days after VJ Day. That attack resulted in the death of one the Dominator’s crewmen, making him the last American aviator to die in combat in WWII. After the war, all the remaining Dominators were either lost to crashes or scrapped.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn 06/30/2015 at 10:09

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three days after VJ Day. That attack resulted in the death of one the Dominator’s crewmen, making him the last American aviator to die in combat in WWII.

Or the first to die in combat after WWII, technically.

ttyymmnn > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 06/30/2015 at 10:09

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Well, yeah, but Japanese fighters came up to oppose the flight, and attacked the planes. The result was that all Japanese airplanes had their props removed as part of the armistice agreement.

Jcarr > ttyymmnn 06/30/2015 at 10:12

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Wish at least one of these would have been saved.

The only flying PB4Y-2 is going to be at Oshkosh in a couple weeks. Excited to see it.

ttyymmnn > Jcarr 06/30/2015 at 10:16

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It’s interesting how they saw those aircraft as only so much aluminum after the war. I guess there was no time for nostalgia. I think Consolidated ripped off the rudder from the B-32 and put it on the Privateer. They share a very similar profile.