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One of the world’s only two flying B-29 Superfortress planes made a stop in Lawton. B-29 “Doc” touched down on April 14, at ...
On July 17, Doc, a restored Boeing B-29, took off from McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas, the culmination of years of effort from hundreds of supporters. On a grassy strip beside the ...
"It was apparent," he wrote later in a paper about the project, "that the only United States aircraft in which such a bomb could be conveniently internally carried was the B-29…. Except for the ...
The legendary B-29 Doc, one of only two airworthy B-29 Superfortresses in the world, is set to visit the Evansville Wartime ...
Connie Palacioz is a 100-year-old volunteer at the B-29 Doc Hangar Museum in Wichita, Kansas. The centenarian is one of the original, and few remaining, Rosie the Riveters. During the war, she was one ...
The answer is simple. The U.S. needed Iwo Jima's airbases. Harry George in front of his B-29 bomber. Harry George. After American forces captured the Mariana Islands in the summer of 1944, ...
Warren, who lives in Antioch, California, was 2 when her father died at 21. The crew’s Boeing B-29 Superfortress was part of a U.S. air raid on Omuta, a nearby city with munition factories ...
“But it seemed very pretty to me.” A U.S. B-29 bomber was shot down over what was then Funaho village in present-day Inzai, located east of Tokyo, sometime between the evening of May ...