B-29
Americannoun
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B-29's
plural
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Etymology
Origin of B-29
First recorded in 1940–45
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“Night after night Boeing’s monstrous Superfortresses”—the B-29 heavy bomber—systematically “scorched Japan’s cities, like fire-breathing dragons,” he writes of the American firebombings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
Let’s journey to Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, located 3,800 miles west of Hawaii and established in 1945 as a B-29 bomber base.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
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
Over Korean skies, Russian fighter planes “too fast to be identified”—the near supersonic MIG-15—attacked American B-29 Superfortress planes.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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
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
Outside he could hear the thunder of the B-29's great engines and feel the vibration as the bomber climbed higher & higher.
From Time Magazine Archive
His first officer was John B. Whitted, a wartime pilot on B-29's.
From The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe
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