II. A B-29 Superfortress airplane, part of US armed forces' 444th Bombardment Group (very heavy), was returning to its base ...

In a joint effort by National Forensic Sciences University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the identification of ...

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress, first flown in 1942, began service in 1944 and is well known as the aircraft whose missions over Japan helped bring about the end of World War II. It was designed as ...

Marking 80 years since the Tokyo air raids of World War II claimed approximately 100,000 lives, people gathered from the ...

Paul Tibbetts, Jr., of Miami, Fla., poses in front of his B-29 Superfortress ‘The Enola Gay’ (named for his mother). The Enola Gay is the same plane he piloted when his bombardier dropped the first ...

November 24, 1944 U.S B-29 bombers. attack the Nakajima aircraft factory northwest of Tokyo. The high-altitude mission marks the first bombing raid of Japan from the Mariana Islands. Due to ...

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 ...

During the firebombing campaign against Tokyo that began in November 1944, the surrounding area was reduced to ashes ... But it was not long before the B-29 bombers shifted to indiscriminate attacks ...