Consolidate B-32 Dominator is a piece of digital artwork by Arthur Eggers which was uploaded on December 11th, 2022.
Consolidate B-32 Dominator
The first B-32s assigned to the 386th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) underwent initial combat evaluation in the Philippines, attacking targets in... more
Title
Consolidate B-32 Dominator
Artist
Arthur Eggers
Medium
Digital Art - Color Print
Description
The first B-32s assigned to the 386th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) underwent initial combat evaluation in the Philippines, attacking targets in Formosa. As more B-32s arrived and the war closed in around Japan, the 386th moved forward to Okinawa. By this time, deep into the summer of 1945, Dominators often worked in small groups conducting ocean search missions or flying over the Japanese home islands to conduct photographic reconnaissance. For a time, both the government and Consolidated banked on building thousands of Dominators for combat. But as the war progressed through 1943 and into 1944, it became increasingly clear that Boeing and the US Army Air Forces were solving, or at least working their way through, many of the B-29’s most alarming issues. Although the Consolidated B-32 Dominators had only a few months of service and logged just a few dozen combat hours in the air, the US Army Air Forces began to strike the aircraft from their inventories soon after the war ended.
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December 11th, 2022
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