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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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
Seventy years earlier, the Enola Gay — the B-29 super fortress that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan — was built inside these walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
The B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced bomber of the 1940s and two of them dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
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
What the people waited for was the B-29's baptism in combat.
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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