Slick Dick
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"Slick Dick" was credited with at least 54 combat missions at the war's end and had been hit by flak on two known occasions. When hostilities ceased the veteran B29 went on to fly at least another three mercy missions to drop supplies to POW camps.

Location

Known mission list

DateCrewTargetNotes
14 Jan 1945 Mitsubishi Nagoya
Aborted
R/E - aborted with severe oil leak in #4 eng
4 Feb 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Kobe
7 Feb 1945 Weather strike
8 Feb 1945 Hughes (Pilot) Weather strike Kobe
15 Feb 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Nagoya Mitsubishi Flew with 497BG
19 Feb 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Tokyo Musashino Left elevator trim tab severed
25 Feb 1945 Hughes (Pilot), O Haas (Co-Pilot) Tokyo
4 Mar 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Tokyo Musashino
9 Mar 1945 Hughes (Pilot) Tokyo
11 Mar 1945 Hughes (Pilot) Nagoya Landed on Guam
13 Mar 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Osaka
16 Mar 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Kobe
Aborted
R/E (NS) - #3 eng
20 Mar 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Weather strike Okinawa
24 Mar 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Nagoya Mitsubishi Hit by flak
31 Mar 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Tachiari
1 Apr 1945 Hughes (Pilot) Tokyo Nakajima
3 Apr 1945 Coffman (Pilot) Tokyo Tachikawa
8 Apr 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Kagoshima
12 Apr 1945 Shorey (Pilot) Weather strike Tamashima
14 Apr 1945 Gillert (Pilot) Weather strike
Aborted
R/E (NS) - eng trouble, landed on Iwo Jima
22 Apr 1945 -- Escort to 4 P38s to Okinawa
26 Apr 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Saeki Airfield
Aborted
R/E (NS) - #2 eng
27 Apr 1945 Sealy (Pilot) Izumi Airfield
30 Apr 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Hamamatsu
5 May 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Kure Hiro
10 May 1945 Sealy (Pilot) Tokuyama
14 May 1945 Hughes (Pilot) Nagoya Bombed with 29BG
16 May 1945 Hughes (Pilot) Nagoya
19 May 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Hamamatsu Landed on Iwo Jima for fuel
23 May 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Southern Tokyo
25 May 1945 Hanft (Pilot) South Tokyo
29 May 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Yokohama
1 Jun 1945 Reeves (Pilot) Osaka urban
5 Jun 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Kobe
7 Jun 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Osaka
10 Jun 1945 Hanft (Pilot) Chiba Hitachi
15 Jun 1945 Sealy (Pilot) Osaka Amagasaki
Aborted
R/E (NS) - #2 engine
17 Jun 1945 Haas (Pilot) Hamamatsu
19 Jun 1945 Haas (Pilot) Fukuoka
22 Jun 1945 Haas (Pilot) Kure
Aborted
R/E (NS) - #4 eng
28 Jun 1945 Haas (Pilot), D Weber (Co-Pilot) Sasebo
1 Jul 1945 Haas (Pilot) Kumamoto
9 Jul 1945 Haas (Pilot), D Weber (Co-Pilot) Sakai
12 Jul 1945 Haas (Pilot) Ichinomiya
16 Jul 1945 Collins (Pilot) Oita
19 Jul 1945 Sawyer (Pilot) Hitachi
24 Jul 1945 Haas (Pilot) Osaka (Kuwana) Flak damage
26 Jul 1945 Haas (Pilot), D Weber (Co-Pilot) Matsuyama
28 Jul 1945 Haas (Pilot) Ichinomiya
1 Aug 1945 Haas (Pilot) Toyama
5 Aug 1945 Haas (Pilot) Nishinomiya Radar Jamming
7 Aug 1945 Sawyer (Pilot) Toyokawa
14 Aug 1945 Haas (Pilot) Osaka
29 Aug 1945 POW Supply #5
31 Aug 1945 POW Supply #6
2 Sep 1945 POW Supply #7