USAF B-29 Superfortress 44-61999 "Over Exposed"

On November 3, 1948, the Boeing Superfortress RB-29A 44-61999 of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group, 311th Air Division, Strategic Air Command, USAF was on a routine 25-minute flight from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire to the USAF base at Burtonwood, near Warrington. It was transporting payroll money and mail; a mild mission for the type of plane that dropped the devastating bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The plane was nicknamed “Over-Exposed”, a tribute to its photo-reconnaissance work, RB-29A had a nude blonde pin-up painted on its side.