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Recent Digital Library Updates

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Digital Library Website

This website is an internet portal to the Prairie Bombers Library for researching the history of Pratt Army Air Field and other Army Air Fields used for the training of B-29 crews during WW II.

The Prairie Bombers Library in Pratt, Kansas contains the documented collections maintained by the B-29 Museum INC. non profit organization.

The content of the website includes:

stories,

photo albums,

audio and video clips,

documents,

and links to related resources about the air fields, the bomb groups/squadrons and their respective crews.

497th Bomb Group Updates

Added 01/06/2010

29th Bomb Group Updates

Added Dec. 2009

40th Bomb Group Updates

Added Dec. 2009

346th Bomb Group Updates

Added/Updated

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Plans For Crew Booklets

Sample Crew Booklet

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Information from our Library can be requested and will be provided in the form of a "Crew Booklet".

Joe's Flight To Remember

Joe Chovelak

Joe Chovelak, a B-29 crewman in WWII, visited Pratt Kansas this week.
Here are some photos of Joe Chovelak's Flight from Pratt Army Airfield this morning (09/23/09).

Don Nass Visits Pratt

Nass

Don Nass was a CFC Gunner on a B-29 Superfortress crew in WW II. As an eighteen year old cadet, assigned to the 29th Bomb Group (Very Heavy), he was stationed at Pratt Army Air Field from September, 1944 through January, 1945.