Bock's Car - Courtesy of the United States Air Force Museum
December 17, 1944
The 509th Composite Group is established at Wendover Field, Utah. The group consists of 15 specially modified B-29 bombers. In June 1945, the group moves to Tinian Island in the Pacific, only 1450 miles from Tokyo.

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