The Boeing B-29 was designed in 1940 as an eventual replacement
for the B-17 and B-24. The airplane was loaded with
incendiaries and used to firebomb Japan to virtually ashes, but it
is best known as the first (and only) airplane to ever drop an
atomic bomb. The "Enola Gay" dropped the first one on
Hiroshima, Japan and "Boxcar" dropped the second on
Nagasaki.
The prototype made its first flight
on September 21, 1942. It was designed as a long-range
strategic bomber. Soon it was decided that its long range
would be more useful in the Pacific Theater where vast expanses of
oceans separated bases from their targets. It was first used
to attack the Japanese homeland from bases in China. During the
last two months of 1944, B-29s began operating against Japan from
the islands of Saipan, Guam and Tinian.
The "Enola Gay" is owned
by the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. The restored
forward fuselage and other parts of the airplane were exhibited
publicly downtown on the Washington, D. C., Mall for the first
time in May 1995. Once
the entire airplane has been fully restored, it will be display at
the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center south of the Dulles International
Airport in December 2003. "Boxcar" is on display
at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.
B-29
Superfortress "Enola Gay"
The plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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23.75" wingspan by 17" long.
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B-29
Superfortress - "Enola Gay"
Standard Series. 1/72nd Scale
23.75" wingspan by 17" long.
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