B-29
Americannoun
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B-29's
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
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
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
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
The flights our new Boeing B-29 bomber planes were now making from the Marianas Islands to Japan and back were very long.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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
In its glare, the 200 families in the trailers, little more than a B-29's length away, stumbled out of their homes and back into the darkness.
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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