The American-made B-29 Stratofortress, designed to replace the B-17 and B-24, revolutionized aerial warfare with its long-range capabilities, pressurized cabins, and heavy payload. Known for dropping ...

The B-29 is one of the most iconic bombers to emerge in the Second World War. It is most widely known for dropping the first nuclear bombs used in war, helping to end the war. This bomber changed ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Ultimately, the B-29 proved an adaptable platform in both American and Soviet service.The Soviet experience also proved, yet again, that few technological gaps ...

Desiring a new strategic bomber as soon as possible, Stalin instructed the Tupolev design bureau to abandon its own design program and instead make an exact copy of the B-29.Which they proceeded ...

Operation Matterhorn was a United States Army Air Force military operation in World War II for the strategic bombing of Japanese forces by B-29 bombers based in India and China. Targets included the ...

With a pressurized cabin, B-29s were capable of high-altitude, long-distance flights and thus were used to drop the two American atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. They were also used ...

The June 13th Israeli airstrikes on Iran were followed up with seven American B2 stealth bombers using fourteen 13 ton ground penetrating bombs to destroy well protected Iranian nuclear weapons ...

BATON ROUGE, La.-- The bomber best known for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan also flew countless other raids. Karnig Thomasian's final mission on a B-29 Superfortress ended in flames when bombs ...

Guy Longshore of LaGrange, Georgia, was a B-29 Command Gunner with the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War 2, and was stationed in the Pacific at the end of the war. On the night of August 6 ...