1	B-32 in flight-- note slight nose-up attitude, normal for this aircraft
2	General characteristics of the B-32
3	Second production aircraft, which was destroyed a few hours after delivery when the main gear collapsed on landing. Lower picture is a B-26, incl. because it's pretty
4	Color side-view of “The Hobo Queen” of the 386th Bomber Squadron, and the Japanese JNAF N1K2-J Shiden-ai interceptor
5	Props and engine installation (shown on model)
6	3-view
7	Another 3-view
8	Color side-view
9	The XB-32 -- the 2nd prototype with original tail configuration. Note pre-war style rudder stripes painted out with O.D.
10	Close-up of previous shot
11	The third XB-32, with final tail configuration.
12	TB-32 trainers on the production line at Fort Worth
13	B-32 #544: engine run-up in the Philippines, Summer, 1945. 386^th Bomb Squadron
14	TB-32 nice shot showing open bomb doors and general outline
15	TB-32, head-on shot
16	Instrument panel
17	XB-32: 2nd prototype, with original tail, and pre-war style rudder stripes.
18	First production B-32 (#471), with interim B-29 tailfin & rudder and 3rd XB-32 again, with final tail design for comparison
19	Line-up of TB-32 trainers at Fort Worth, #--500 closest to camera
20	TB-32 in flight
21	Three TB-32s in formation
22	2nd production B-32 (#-472) in flight. This was the first B-32 delivered to the USAAF. A few hours after delivery, it was destroyed when the main gear collapsed on landing.
23	First mission, 29 May 1945, Philippines
24	A B-32 of the 386 Bomber Sq. back in US after the war. 5th AF and 312th BG insignia visible. If the war had lasted, the other 3 A-20 squadrons of the 312th would have converted to the B-32
25	37 virtually complete B-32s on the line at Fort Worth. These were never delivered, never flew and never even got out of the factory except as scrap-- came in as parts, were assembled, were cut up, left as pieces. The second-source plant, specially built at San Diego for the B-32, delivered only ONE aircraft, with dozens more scrapped
26	38 B-32s await scrapping at Kingman, AZ in Feb. 1947 (67 others went to their fates at Walnut Ridge, TN, but I could not locate photos.) Note the "Clubs" insignia on the fins of the fourth airplane in the front row and the last one in the back row. That's the insignia of the 386th Bomb Squadron, the only unit to fly the B-32 in combat; the 312th BG, like a number of A-20 and B-25 groups, had four squadrons-- the playing card symbols were a natural to distinguish the units' airplanes. In the 412th, the diamonds, spades, and hearts finished their war still painted on A-20s-- only the clubs squadron got B-32s. This shot was taken by William T. Larkins, and appears in his splendid new book Surplus WWII U. S. Aircraft, published by Bledsoe's Aviation Art at 32.95 including shipping (POB 1956 Upland CA 91785, ph. (909) 986-1103, online at www.bledsoeavart.com). Besides a number of great shots of B-32s, it provides a very good portrait of part of the post-WWII surplus aircraft disposal program, with shots of hundreds of B-24s, B-17s, P-70s, A-20s (you name it!) awaiting disposal or sale to civil owners. Some civil registered birds are shown, mostly bought by optimists who didn't know quite how expensive a pet airplane can be (!). Useful appendices include inventory lists for the War Assets Administration surplus aircraft disposal depots that received tens of thousands of planes, quite a few brand-new. A table of standard prices for ex-military transports is interesting (it rated the birds as "new", "recently overhauled", and "run-of-the-mill", and priced them accordingly.). Highly recommended for any WWII airplane nut! A number of modifications are not documented anywhere else, such as B-24s fitted out to train B-29 gunners on the remotely-operated guns on the Superfortress B-32 at Kingman, AZ awaiting post-war scrapping
27	The last B-32, held in storage at Davis-Monthan AFB for the Air Force Museum. Eventually scrapped in 1949, evidently part of the scrapping frenzy that also destroyed several hundred captured German and Japanese aircraft stored at several locations around the USA, notably the ex-USAAF collection of enemy aircraft stored at O'Hare Field (all that survived was the forward fuselage of a Henschel Hs-129 attack aircraft)
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