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Martin Company at its plant in Bellevue, Nebraska.
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That B-29, actually a B-29-45-MO, Army Air Forces serial number 44-86292, was built not by Boeing, but by the Glenn L. There once was a B-29 Superfortress bomber known to entire generations of Americans. Left front fuselage view of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay at the Udvar-Hazy. The bomb (“Little Boy”), targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, caused unprecedented destruction. De nombreux exemplaires ont été conservés, dont les deux plus célèbres, qui ont réalisé les deux bombardements atomiques dHiroshima et de Nagasaki : l Enola Gay, qui a largué la première bombe atomique Little Boy sur Hiroshima, et le Bockscar la Fat Man sur Nagasaki. Enola Gay Was a Specially Modified Aircraft for an Unthinkable Secret Task. Boeing B-29 Superfortress photos of current day aircraft survivors.
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Long Description Boeings B-29 Superfortress was the most sophisticated propeller-driven bomber of World War II and the first bomber to house its crew in pressurized compartments. On August 6, 1945, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. Boeing B-29 Superfortress 'Enola Gay' Display Status: This object is on display in the World War II Aviation (UHC) at the Steven F.
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This video includes a full crew list of the 13 men that flew the mission. Martin Company (now Lockheed Martin) in Omaha, Nebraska. Various pictures of the bomber 'Enola Gay', the bomb she dropped, and her crew. This now infamous Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, one of 65 modified to carry atomic weapons, was named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of its pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Tibbets, who hand-picked the aircraft from the assembly line at Glenn L. The B-29 was the first aircraft that dropped nuclear bombs (Enola Gay, Hiroshima and Bockscar, Nagasaki).