Fat Man bomb cases F-31 and F-32 arrive on Tinian, carried by 509th B-29's ...
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber
Truman's order of July 25th had authorized the dropping of additional bombs as soon as they were ready. At 3:47 a.m. on August 9, 1945, a B-29 named Bock's ...
Ever since America dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on August
August 9, 1945: An atomic bomb is dropped over Nagasaki, Japan, by a B-29 bomber piloted by Maj. Charles Sweeney. It explodes 1,540 feet ...
The Hiroshima bomb, “Little Boy,” used highly enriched uranium, was
Paul Tibbets, who piloted the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb, has died at age 92. On Aug. 6, 1945, Tibbets' B-29 dropped the nearly ...
Alex Wellerstein remembers the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, the often
Maj Gen Chalres W Sweeney, who flew B-29 Superfortress that dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, in final days of World War II, dies at ...
On Truman's orders, the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima August 6. Another B-29, Bockscar, dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki ...