The B-29 Superfortress was one of the legendary bombers of WWII, making history in two wars and also in peacetime.

The Able test on July 1 saw a 22-23 kiloton bomb dropped from a B-29, sinking five ships. The Baker test on July 25 involved an underwater detonation, causing significant damage and widespread ...

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

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

Paul Tibbets captained the Enola Gay, the B-29 plane that released the first bomb, Little Boy, over Hiroshima on August 6, ...

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the chairman of Nihon Hidankyo, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, said his foremost wish was to ...

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

But Hiroshima has not been targeted. Although B-29 planes have been flying over the city, they never drop bombs. Japanese civilians have become so accustomed to the planes, they have given the B ...

One of the last flying B-29 Superfortress aircraft—the same type from Boeing that dropped two atomic bombs on Japan—touched ...

On 6 August 1945 at 08:15 Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber plane named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was the first time an atomic bomb had ever been used in a war.