B29-#44-69811 crash time May 29, 1945 Crash position Fukuoka Moji Ozato character Okuda (Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka Moji) Affiliation 313rd bombing team 9th bombing G of 20th air force 1 bombing party Attack target Kammon Strait Cause of crash Anti-aircraft gun Body nickname Tinny Anne crew Arrangement inside the plane Name Class Recognition number Life and death Pilot BLACK Stanley C. first lieutenant 0-736954 X Copilot FRANK Charles S. Second lieutenant 0-774604 X Navigater LEE Forrest A. second lieutenant 0-2060537 X bombing hand ATLAS Robert C. second lieutenant 0-9281153 X engineer PALASICK Ernest sergeant major 6919400 X Radar BONACK and Nicholas Second grade staff sergeant 39583389 X Radio operator CHRISMAN Maurice E. second grade staff sergeant 37527548 X central firearms control SIDDENS Chales technical staff sergeant 36780815 X R.Gunner BOWERS James A. staff sergeant 33734701 X L.gunner MANN Joe D. staff sergeant 14200165 X Taik gunner PALMER Chales S. staff sergeant 33832567 X The direct hit of the anti-aircraft gun cartridge in the Kammon Strait mine dropping duty is received, and it falls into Moji Ozato Okuda. With no survivors. The dead body is buried on the Okuda light island shrine reverse side with wreckage. TETSUYA in JAPAN [signature]

it sets in the valley in Yamanaka in Okuda, Moji-ku into which it inquired at Sun., March 24, 2002 and the meeting regular meeting which records war of Kitakyushu -- the piece of metal considered to be the fragment of B29 was unearthed The result of the X ray analysis in a public experiment station was what is been "the super-duralumin" used only for an airplane. It is thought that it of a fragment is almost certain that it is this thing of B29 since the spot is the place into which B29 (body number 44-69811) which came flying for mine dropping in a May 28, 1945 ? 29-day Moji strait fell. The photograph of the unearthed fragment (70x35cm) [signature]

My Uncle was Maurice Chrisman, radio operator on the "Tinny Anne." Please tell me what you can about that crash. Were the dead bodies recovered? If so, when? My uncles grave is in Leavenworth, Kansas, but we always wondered if his body is really buried there and if his body was ever recovered. Maurice's sister, my Mother, is still living and any information would help to honor his memory.

Dixie Sullivan