B-29
Americannoun
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B-29's
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Etymology
Origin of B-29
First recorded in 1940–45
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Germany’s failed heavy-bomber program in World War II was probably more expensive than its entire tank production, while America’s B-29 Superfortress project consumed more resources than the development of the atomic bomb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
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.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2025
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.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
That Boeing B-29 bombers that would carry the bombs had already been assembled on Tinian Island, 1,500 miles south of Japan, and the military decision to use the bombs was preordained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
At two forty-five on the morning of August 5, Alvarez climbed into the Great Artiste, the B-29 accompanying Tibbets’s Enola Gay on the bomb run.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
In all, ten of the B-29’s fourteen-man crew are still unaccounted for in any form—from P.O.W. stories, U.S. intelligence reports, or the remains returned by North Korea.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 31, 2018
Henry Stimson, 1947, attempting to justify Hiroshima and Nagasaki: “Additional fire raids of B-29’s would have been more destructive of life and property … this deliberate, premeditated destruction was our least abhorrent choice.”
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2012
What the people waited for was the B-29's baptism in combat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Control of the B-29's guns can be interchanged, passed around from gunner to gunner like a basketball and with split-second speed.
From Time Magazine Archive
We got atom bombs and B-29’s, both vitamins and airplanes, and stuff to cure you of everything from broken legs to dropsy.
From Jimsy and the Monsters by Walter J. Sheldon
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