Registration Info:
USAAF Serial# 42-63356

History:
B-29 serial number 42-63356, she was initially named the "Georgia Peach" since the plane's commander ( Major Millar) was from Georgia. After flying a number of missions from China, my fathers crew was sent back to the U.S. to begin training for the atomic bomb missions. Col. Tibbets later selected other crews to continue the atomic bomb mission training, and my my father's crew were made trainers of new B-29 crews.

She was delivered to the USAAF on 2/13/44. She departed Smoky Hill AFB on 4/15/44 destination India and arrived on 5/4/44. She flew eight combat missions and 7 Hump missions and returned to the U.S. as a weary on 12/11/44 and was assigned to Roswell. His B-29 was later re-named "Lassie" and "Valkyrie Queen". She was scrapped as surplus at Pyote on 12/21/49.

My late father Nicholas J. Mike flew as a radar bombadier on the B-29 named the "Georgia Peach" with the 468th Bomb Group, 793rd Bomb Squadron - Joseph P. Mike

Sources:
Joseph P. Mike