Known for dropping the first atomic bomb on Japan in 1945, the B-29 remains the only aircraft to have deployed nuclear weapons in combat. -With a 141-foot wingspan, the Stratofortress could carry ...
Residents of a western Tokyo city applauded when seeing a U.S. B-29 bomber engulfed in flames in the air near the end of World War II. After the aircraft crashed, however, they recovered the ...
The crew’s Boeing B-29 Superfortress was part of a U.S. air raid on Omuta, a nearby city with munition factories, early on July 27, 1945. The bomber, whose serial number was 42-94098 ...
The answer is simple. The U.S. needed Iwo Jima's airbases. Harry George in front of his B-29 bomber. Harry George. After American forces captured the Mariana Islands in the summer of 1944, ...
A hiking trail in the Peak District boasts a unique feature - the remnants of a plane that crashed back in 1948. The aircraft in question is a U. S. Air Force B-29 Superfortress Bomber, which met its ...