Boeing’s B-29 Superfortress was a strategic bomber used to defeat Japan in WWII and was intended for transoceanic missions.

The B-29 Superfortress was an important US heavy bomber introduced in 1944 that played a major role in the later stages of World War II. It had several variants, including prototypes (XB-29 and YB ...

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ movement, Nihon Hidankyo, fighting for a world ...

CAMARILLO, Calif.-A rare Boeing B-29 Superfortress flew into the Camarillo Airport. It's called Doc, like one of the seven ...

China's development of the H-20 next-generation bomber could challenge U.S. dominance in strategic long-range bombers. As the ...

Twenty-one days after the test, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the uranium bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later the plutonium bomb was used to bomb Nagasaki. The two bombs killed ...

“The B-29 was a technological marvel in the 1940s. It was the first all-electric aircraft. it was the first high-altitude, long-range bomber pressurized. It had all the bells and whistle ...

If the B-29 carrying Little Boy explodes, the consequences could be catastrophic. He takes a radical decision – both he and his colleague, Lieutenant Morris Jeppson, will arm the bomb in the air.

Kita-Kyushu was also an initial target for an atomic bomb. On the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, a B-29 bomber loaded with an atomic bomb reached the skies over Kokura, now part of Kita-Kyushu.

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