YB-29 ‘HOBO QUEEN’ approaching RAF Glatton (Conington) Station 130, a major base used by American forces during the war. In the early quiet afternoon of March 11, 1944, while 20 group aircraft were on a mission to the Munster marshaling yards, a new silhouette appeared in the sky above Glatton. Although considered for other theaters, and briefly evaluated in the UK, the B-29 was exclusively used in World War II in the Pacific Theatre. The use of YB-29-BW 41-36393, the so-named Hobo Queen, one of the service test aircraft flown around several British airfields in early 1944, was part of a "disinformation" program from its mention in an American-published Sternenbanner German-language propaganda leaflet from Leap Year Day in 1944, meant to be circulated within the Reich, with the intent to deceive the Germans into believing that the B-29 would be deployed to Europe. This was the only YB-29 to leave the U.S. YB-29 ‘HOBO QUEEN’ about to touch down at Glatton. The B-29 Superfortre...