But later I told Ray, ‘We’re going to drop an atomic bomb.’" Morris "Dick" Jeppson, who as an Army lieutenant would monitor Little Boy’s pulse en route to Japan in Tibbets’ B-29 ...

A jacked-up B-29 is ready to be armed with a nuclear bomb ... marked the last use of an atomic bomb in combat. Carrier-based U.S. Navy aircraft tear up a bridge over the Yalu River.

At 0900 on July 1, operation test Able commenced, and an atomic bomb, named Gilda, was dropped from the B-29 Superfortress. Gilda was detonated at 520 feet of altitude, with a yield of 22-23 ...

The B-29 was a revolutionary new bomber with a number of novel innovations. It was used to flatten entire Japanese cities and ...

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 ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...