Originally Posted by
dduxbury310
.......Also, and not really connected with this, were USAAF B-29s squadrons located on Cuba in 1944, working up to operational status prior to deployment to the North Pacific? I presume this would have been same airfield, or was it another?
dduxbury, B-29 crews (including the 509th, the B-29 atomic bomb group) did work ups at Batista field, now known as San Antonio de Los Banos, southwest of Havana, so quite a distance from Guantomino