B-29

[bee-twen-tee-nahyn]

noun

U.S. Military.

plural

B-29's 

1. a heavy, long-range, four-engined bomber used during World War II.

Word History and Origins

Origin of B-29¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

The name was not a reference to homosexuality, but was given to the B-29 bomber by the pilot in honor of his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets.

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Seventy years earlier, the Enola Gay — the B-29 super fortress that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan — was built inside these walls.

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“We weren’t doing it for honors and awards. We were doing it to save our country. And we ended up helping save the world,” said 98-year-old Anna Mae Krier, who worked as a riveter building B-17 and B-29 bombers.

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Despite the cloudiness of the crystal caused by the blast, the watch’s hands remain halted at 8:15 AM — the moment when the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb.

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The B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced bomber of the 1940s and two of them dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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