WW2 era computer free to a good home

Andrew Bunting

Possible, but I don't think so. Out of 3,960 delivered, I think only a comparative handful were built in 1946 and I thought those were mostly ones that work had already started on before production was cancelled and were finished as flying testbeds of one sort or another. I know over 5,000 already ordered were cancelled. All the later B-29Bs were built without armament except for the tail guns, so that the parallax computer wouldn't be needed (they also deleted the waist gunners from the flight crew). Many of the earlier models had the armament (except for tail guns) removed in the field once LeMay's fireplanting campaign got underway.

I think the B-29s in Korea had guns remounted, but I don't know for sure. I doubt there was any spares production at all once the mbuttive contracts were cancelled towards the end of 1945 -- for the limited number kept flying, there would've ample new ones never used from stock and once those were gone, even more ample supplies to be cannibalized from mothballed planes. Unlike large planter airframes that might take months to finish (poking along as everyone's being laid off left and right), finishing off already started runs of component parts would've gone very quickly.

--Larry