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Another good story about the B29...
Over a period of time, three B29s that were bombing Japan couldn't make it back to their base and made emergency landings in Russia.
Joe Stalin refused to give them back to the US.
Tupulov (shortened very long story) copied them... a metric B29.
The US found out when at a May Day Parade the US planes flew over... and... the Russian B29followed them. The US knew about the US planes, but when they saw an 'extra' plane, they knew what had happened.
Uh-oh. They now had a long range bomber. They built hundreds and hundreds of them.
Never the performance equal of the B29, much less the B50, it was still a threat.
There is still one on display at a museum in Russia.
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