April - June 2017

A long lone silvery aircraft with a wing span of nearly a football field lumbered over the city on its approach to Dow Field. Bangoreans were used to seeing multiple bombers flying to and fro over their city during the war years. But the war was over now, although only by a few months, and the local skies had quieted down. This plane, however, was different than any they had seen before; it was a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Major David Adams, Airplane Commander, was at the controls of the monstrous aircraft as it touched down. Major Adams grew up on South Main Street in Brewer and was a veteran of the 19th Bombardment Group and the 43rd Bombardment Group, the latter stationed at Dow Field in the fall of 1941.