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 ...

Two B-29 planes have exploded on take-off in the ... For the men who developed the atomic bomb and masterminded the mission, their families and the rest of the world finally know the top secret ...

the twin atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both of these bombs were huge, requiring hulking Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers to fly them into position, and packed ...

The museum is known for exhibiting the restored B-29 bomber named Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Referring to his “Hiroshima Collection,” Tsuchida said: “I ...

I now live in Sydney, but I was born and brought up in Hiroshima. When the bomb exploded on the morning of August 6 1945, I was a 13-year-old schoolgirl. I lived 1.7 kilometres away from where the ...

In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew ... in the days and hours before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. WW2: How close did D-Day ...

He was pressing the lower notes on the keyboard and imitating the sound of an American B-29 engine ... to listen to the stories of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors like Mise.

On August 1, 1950, the "decision was made to send the 9th Bomb Wing to Guam as an atomic task force immediately." Ten B-29s, loaded with unarmed atomic bombs, set out for the Pacific. On August 5 ...

along with the Enola Gay B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The project faced a storm of protests from veterans’ organizations, among other opponents. Noted politicians and ...