The Able test on July 1 saw a 22-23 kiloton bomb dropped from a B-29, sinking five ships. The Baker test on July 25 involved ...

"On July 17, 2016, after 16 years of restoration, B-29 Doc roared back to flight," reads the organization's history of the ...

The B-29 was a revolutionary new bomber with a number of novel innovations. It was used to flatten entire Japanese cities and ...

On 6 August 1945 at 08:15 Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber plane named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

There are over 1,000 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets on order for the U.S. Air Force, but it is not one of the top 3 in active ...

But Hiroshima has not been targeted. Although B-29 planes have been flying over the city, they never drop bombs. Japanese civilians have become so accustomed to the planes, they have given the B ...

In 1945, dummy bombs called "Pumpkins ... States as practice for dropping the first atomic bombs. This rare color footage (the narration has been added) shows a B-29 crew releasing bombs over ...

Twenty-one days after the test, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the uranium bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later the plutonium bomb was used to bomb Nagasaki. The two bombs killed ...

An overgrown airfield on a small island in the Pacific, once instrumental in America's role in ending World War II, is being ...

Shortly after midnight on March 10, 1945, more than 300 American B-29 airplanes began dropping incendiary bombs over Tokyo in a coordinated attack called "Operation Meetinghouse." Their targets ...

In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew ... Enola Gay faced no resistance as it dropped the bomb. Forty five seconds later the city was destroyed in a ...

On 6 August 1945 at 08:15 Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber plane named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was the first time an atomic bomb had ever been used in a war.