B-29
Americannoun
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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
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
Truman also delivered a sterner warning to Stalin: The president sent a fleet of B-29 bombers to bases in England, the same type of aircraft that had dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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
Eddie Allen was later killed in one of the three crashes which marked the B-29's test-flying period.
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
There we were to join with our two companion observation B-29's that took off a few minutes behind us.
From The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District
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