B-29
noun
a heavy, long-range, four-engined bomber used during World War II.
B-29's
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pluralof B-29.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The B-29's civilian skipper, Stan Butchart, hoped to land his valuable cargo without further trouble, but the chase plane's pilot saw that there was still some dangerous fuel in the X-1A's tanks.
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
But on February 19, 1952, the calm was broken by the story of how a huge ball of fire paced two B-29's in Korea.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt
