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The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a huge, four-engine bomber aircraft used by the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. It was named "Superfortress" because it was an improved version of the famous B-17 Flying Fortress.

The B-29, also known as the Boeing Model 345, was one of the largest planes used in World War II. It was also one of the most advanced bombers of its time. This powerful aircraft was used a lot by the U.S. to bomb Japan in the last months of World War II. B-29 planes also carried the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which helped end the war. The B-29 stayed in service for many years after the war. About 3,900 of these planes were built before they were retired in the 1960s.

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  • Boeing-Whichata B-29 Assembly Line - 1944

    Boeing assembly line at Wichita, Kansas (1944)

  • Boeing B-29 Superfortress at Davis-Monthan AFB

    The length of the 141-foot (43 m) wing span of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress based at Davis-Monthan Field is vividly illustrated here with the cloud-topped Santa Catalina Mountains as a contrasting background.

  • Olive-drab painted B-29 superfortress

    YB-29 Superfortresses in flight

  • Favored by Warm breezes and under a blue Kansas Sky, a vast crowd attends the delivery ceremony on the Boeing-Wichita... - NARA - 196890

    1000th B-29 delivery ceremony at Boeing Wichita plant in February 1945

  • Interior of a B-29 Superfortress bomber

    Interior photo of the rear pressurized cabin of the B-29 Superfortress, June 1944

  • B-29 Weapons Bay with General-Purpose AN-M64 TNT 500 LB bombs

    B-29 Weapons Bay with General-Purpose AN-M64 TNT 500 LB bombs

  • B29 55 MO tail HAFB

    Tail armament, B-29 Superfortress, Hill Aerospace Museum

  • AAF-V-map5t

    Radius of operations for B-29 bases

  • Boeing B-29 Superfortress

    Boeing B-29 Superfortress

  • 16thbg-b-29

    B-29 of the 16th Bombardment Group during World War II in 1944

  • Enola Gay2

    Enola Gay, a Silverplate version of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress landing after delivering Little Boy over Hiroshima

  • B-29 Bomber on a long range mission in late 1945

    B-29A-30-BN, 42-94106, on a long-range mission

  • Boeing B-29A Washington B.1 WF502 90 Sqn Hooton 20.09.52 edited-2

    Royal Air Force Washington B.1 of No. 90 Squadron RAF based at RAF Marham

  • Tupolev Tu-4 01 red (10255123433)

    Tupolev Tu-4 at Monino museum

  • B-29 307th BG bombing target in Korea c1951

    A 307th Bomb Group B-29 bombing a target in Korea, c. 1951

  • Bell X-1 in the belly of a B-29

    Bell X-1 and its B-29 mother ship

  • Boeing WB-29A 53 WRS 1954

    WB-29A of the 53d Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in 1954 showing the fuselage-top observation station

  • FIFI and Doc

    The two remaining flyable B-29s: FIFI (top) and Doc (bottom)

  • B 29 It's hawg wild

    B-29 'It's Hawg wild' at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford

  • Boeing B-29 Bockscar cockpit 2 USAF

    Flight engineer's station of Bockscar

  • Boeing B-29, FIFI (31)

    Cockpit in FIFI

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