The B-29 Superfortress was not designed to be nice. It was a pressurized, four-engine behemoth built for one specific purpose: to carry 20,000 pounds of explosive steel to the Japanese mainland. It ...

Suffering an arduous start in the CBI Theater, the B-29 would initially struggle to prove its worth, the victim of teething problems from its rapid development and production, along with supply issues ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

A dive team explores the submerged B-29 bomber at Lake Mead, a WWII relic preserved underwater since 1948.

The World War II-era plane was on a scientific mission when it crashed into Lake Mead. The National Park Service wants to protect a B-29 bomber that sits at the bottom of Lake Mead A World War II-era ...