Booze Hound
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There can be no doubt about the origin of the name for this B29 given that it was assigned to the crew of Lt George Booze. The long serving Superfort completed more than forty combat missions against Japan under the dedicated care of crew chief M/Sgt Ben Eilers. "Booze Hound" survived the war and went on to serve again in the Korean Conflict but by then it had been transferred to 98BG(VH)and received a lavish new artwork with the name of "September Song". All the under surfaces had also been painted in black in an attempt to reduce the risk of being spotted by night fighters or search lights.

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Known mission list

DateCrewTargetNotes
5 Mar 1945 Booze (Pilot) Weather strike
9 Mar 1945 Booze (Pilot) Tokyo
11 Mar 1945 Booze (Pilot) Nagoya
13 Mar 1945 Booze (Pilot) Osaka
16 Mar 1945 Lewis (Pilot) Kobe
18 Mar 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Weather strike Tokyo
27 Mar 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Kyushu AFs
31 Mar 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Tachiari
8 Apr 1945 Booze (Pilot) Kagoshima
12 Apr 1945 Booze (Pilot) Tokyo Musashino Nakajima
13 Apr 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Tokyo Arsenal
15 Apr 1945 Booze (Pilot) Southern Tokyo
10 May 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Tokuyama
14 May 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Nagoya
16 May 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Nagoya
19 May 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Hamamatsu
1 Jun 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Osaka urban
5 Jun 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Kobe
7 Jun 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Osaka
10 Jun 1945 Althoff (Pilot) Chiba Hitachi Minor flak damage
15 Jun 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Osaka Amagasaki
22 Jun 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Kure
26 Jun 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Osaka
1 Jul 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Kumamoto
3 Jul 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Kochi
6 Jul 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Akashi
9 Jul 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Sakai
16 Jul 1945 Calhoun (Pilot) Oita
19 Jul 1945 Powers (Pilot) Hitachi
24 Jul 1945 S Fox (Pilot) Osaka (Kuwana)
1 Aug 1945 S Fox (Pilot) Toyama Lost one engine, landed on Iwo Jima
14 Aug 1945 S Fox (Pilot) Osaka
29 Aug 1945 POW Supply #5

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