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Boeing B-29 Superfortress
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engined, long-range bomber of the United States Air Force. The largest of all Second World War (1939-45) bombers, B-29s were used to strike Japanese targets from the summer of 1944...
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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in flight at the Chino Airshow in California, 2014. The B-17 was the main US bomber in WWII in the European theatre of the conflict.
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B-17 Flying Fortress
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a four-engined heavy bomber plane used by the air forces of the United States and Britain during the Second World War (1939-45). The B-17 had unusually heavy defensive armament, 13 machine...
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Manhattan Project - How the Atomic Bomb Was Built
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the secret US-led programme to develop an atomic bomb during the Second World War (1939-45). Hugely expensive and employing the best scientific minds from Europe...
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Hiroshima after the Atomic Bomb Attack
The Japanese city of Hiroshima after being hit by an atomic bomb dropped from a US Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress on 6 August 1945. The bomb was dropped in order to end the Second World War (1939-45) as...
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B-29 on a Bombing Mission
A Boeing B-29 Superfortress flying over Japan on its way to bomb Osaka in Japan during the Second World War (1939-45). Photograph taken on 1 June 1945.
United States Air Force Historical Research Agency.
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Boing B-29 Superfortress in Flight
A Boeing B-29 Superfortress in flight. The B-29 long-distance bomber was in active service with the United States Air Force from April 1944. This B-29, called 'Doc', is one of only two B-29s still capable of flying...
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Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress
The Enola Gay on the Marianas Islands. This was the US Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, in the final stages of the Second World War...
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B-29 Superfortress in Flight
A Boeing B-29 Superfortress in flight. The B-29 long-distance bomber was in active service with the United States Air Force from April 1944.
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Fifi B-29 Bomber
Front view of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The B-29 long-distance bomber was in active service with the United States Air Force from April 1944. This B-29, called 'Fifi', is one of only two B-29s still capable of flying.