B-29s headed to NOLA expo

BATON ROUGE, La. - The B-29 Superfortress is best known for dropping atomic bombs on Japan during WWII, but flew countless other raids. Karnig Thomasian's final mission on a B-29 ended in flames over Burma in 1945 when bombs collided in a mid-air explosion that forced him to bail out; and spend six months as a Japanese prisoner of war. On Oct. 23, he was again in a B-29 flying from Baton Rouge to this weekend’s WWII AirPower Expo in New Orleans. (Source: The Associated Press 10/24/14)