The B-29 Superfortress was not designed to be nice. It was a pressurized, four-engine behemoth built for one specific purpose: to carry 20,000 pounds of explosive steel to the Japanese mainland. It ...

The plane is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The museum restored the plane's nose art and included a recreation of the Fat Man bomb. The National Museum of the ...

Nearly two years before the attack on Pearl Harbour brought the United States into the Second World War, the US Army Air Corps asked American aircraft manufacturers to design a bomber that could fly 3 ...

Discover the story of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

Suffering an arduous start in the CBI Theater, the B-29 would initially struggle to prove its worth, the victim of teething problems from its rapid development and production, along with supply issues ...

Japan and the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, inaugurating a new era of human history. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber known as the ...