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B-29 bomber, number Z-28 Hog Wild on August 29, 1945. Part II Flight Analysis

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   Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator from original post .   General situation in the war with Japan and in Korea by August 29, 1945  The U.S. had been bombing Japan with B-29 bombers since late 1944, and dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6. Implementing the Yalta Accords of February 1945, the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan on August 9, 1945 ; exactly three months after Victory on May 9. On the night of August 9, Soviet tank wedges tore through the Samurai defenses in Manchuria, Korea (from Vladivostok) and Sakhalin. Air and sea landings sowed panic in the rear.   The Soviet Union's war with Japan and the Korean operation. The cities of Heungnam and Pyongyang were occupied on August 24, 1945. Troops followed the landing party along the coast without not going much further inland.   From the morning of August 9 , feverish government meetings began in Tokyo . At 11:30 a.m. the atomic bombing of Nagasaki was reported. Early in the morning of August 10
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B-29 bomber, number Z-28 Hog Wild on August 29, 1945. Part I Diary

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 Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator from original post .   August 29, 1945 - there were four days to go before Japan signed its surrender and the end of World War II. The day before, on the 28th, the occupation of Japan by American troops began. August 29 is the day the first Soviet atomic bomb was tested in 1949 . Four years have passed. "Hog Wild" was the name of one of the bombers: the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, number Z-28 , 500th Bombardment Group (500th BG), 882nd Squadron of the United States Air Force. On August 29, 1945 , the Hog Wild was sent on a mission to drop cargo for a prisoner-of-war camp near the North Korean city of Hamhung (Jap. Kanko). The city of Kanko was occupied by Soviet forces at the time. "The Hog Wild never returned from the mission. It was intercepted over Hamhung, fired upon and forced to land by two Soviet Yak-9 fighters.  The incident was the subject of strong U.S. protests against the Soviet Union from General Douglas M
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