Western Command Convoy video

[Jon McGrath]

Originally Posted by Bruce MacMillan

Sea Island Heritage Society has a webpage with some photos.
http://www.seaislandhome.org/boeing.html

Thank you for the Boeing link. Not wishing to hijack this thread toward aviation, but any idea if the Enola Gay's fuselage was produced in the Vancouver plant?
Jon

[Grant Bowker]

This link https://www.b29-superfortress.com/b2...bly-plants.htm suggests B-29 production was in Wichita.

[Bruce MacMillan]

They were also built in Seattle. The plant at Sea Island built part of the center fusilage including bomb bay doors. These were shipped to Seattle for assy.

CBC video here:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1245421635735

[Harry Moon]

Looking at the photo's I come up with the same anomaly between the two buildings.
The SeaIsland web page you sent show two different buildings, the top one is I believe of the Queensborough building as it has an extra structure on the roof letting in more light and cooling, those structures are never present on the Sea Island building.'Nice to see Arrow Transfer trucks, they are still in Bussiness.

[Bruce MacMillan]

Vancouver Archives has photos of the two buildings.

https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/...one-sea-island

https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/...two-sea-island

[Harry Moon]

http://www.seaislandhome.org/images/...sea-island.jpg
But this one is definitly the one in Queensborough, its under construction in this photo, i"ve seen this before. At the top left you see the start of the uppermost structures that you can see in the video and the attached structures are still in place today.