History in Color: Adding a Colorful Spin to a Monochrome Past

Waddy’s Wagon

This is a photo of Captain Walter “Waddy” Young and his crew in front of their painted caricatures on their B-29 Superfortress on November 24, 1944.

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Captain Cliché

Seeing this in black and white just wouldn’t be fulfilling enough. The story goes that “Waddy’s Wagon” and its crew disappeared 10 miles east of Choshi Point, Japan, while it was protecting B-29 Crew A-46.

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