CHA-906

CHA-906

Chamber of Commerce

Postcard; aircraft; manufacturing; business and industry; Wichita; Sedgwick County; Kansas; 1940-1949

Postcard of Boeing B-29 Superfortress. "Top and bottom remotely-controlled, electrically-operated gun turrets and outlines of the huge double bomb bays are visible in this photograph of a B-29 Superfortress produced at the Wichita Division plants of Boeing Airplane Company. Half again as large as the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-29 carries a heavier bomb load farther, faster and higher than any other warplane..."

TIFF

CHA-906

Grogan Photo Company, Danville, IL

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