WWII Plane Frozen In Time Is Resurrected Before Disaster Strikes

We all know that during wartime, countries have built thousands of planes to turn the tide of battle. But rarely do we wonder about what happens to these aircraft after the last shot is fired. Some might end up in museums, while others are taken apart for scrap. Yet a few planes, like the Kee Bird, end up with far stranger fates. Years after this World War II bomber met an unhappy fate, a team of experts decided it was high time to track down the forgotten bomber.

A fortress in the sky

The Kee Bird was a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, which makes it surprising that the American military would live it laying in the middle of nowhere. Any historian will tell you that this model was an era-defining aircraft. During World War II and the Korean War, the plane was one of the most fearsome weapons in America's arsenal.

State-of-the-art

The plan was equipped with the latest features, like a pressurized cabin. Its machine gun turrets were even controlled by basic computers, allowing one gunner to control four weapons at once.

Key missions

Those advancements made the plane a workhorse, frequently sent on important combat missions over enemy territory. The Enola Gay, which infamously dropped the first atomic bomb on Nagasaki, was a B-29. The aircraft was so useful that it didn't fall out of favor after World War II wrapped up. The United States Air Force simply found a different way to utilize the massive bombers.

Spy planes

The aircrafts' bomb bays were emptied and filled with fuel tanks and camera equipment. B-29 would be used for surveillance, flying high above the clouds to observe the terrain and movement below. And there was plenty of spying to be done in the ensuing years.