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<p>Stacy Fisher Brown takes a photo with her father David Brown, Sr., as he boards for a flight on a B-29 bomber from Baton Rouge, La. to New Orleans, Thursday. Fisher was a radio man on a B-29 during World War II.</p>

<p>Stacy Fisher Brown takes a photo with her father David Brown, Sr., as he boards for a flight on a B-29 bomber from Baton Rouge, La. to New Orleans, Thursday. Fisher was a radio man on a B-29 during World War II.</p>

October 25, 2014

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World War II airmen fly again in storied B-29
October 25, 2014 9 p.m.

World War II airmen fly again in storied B-29

BATON ROUGE, La. - The bomber best known for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan also flew countless other raids. Karnig Thomasian's final mission on a B-29 Superfortress ended in flames when bombs collided and exploded in the air over Burma in 1945.