In the wake of World War 2, the United States emerged as an industrial powerhouse after supplying its own military and its ...

Nearly two years before the attack on Pearl Harbour brought the United States into the Second World War, the US Army Air Corps asked American aircraft manufacturers to design a bomber that could fly 3 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Tinian Island, part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, fell to the Japanese after World War I. It was captured by the United ...

The famous WWII-era B-29 Superfortress bomber is the only aircraft to ever drop nuclear weapons in combat, as it was the aircraft which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The aircraft was ...

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Experience living World War II history in Fort Myers as the iconic B-29 Superfortress "DOC" and P-51 Mustang "Gunfighter" ...

The iconic B-29 Superfortress "Doc" will land at Springfield-Branson National Airport on Friday, Nov. 1, as part of the B-29 Doc History Restored Tour. B-29 Doc, one of 1,644 B-29 Superfortress ...

CAMARILLO, Calif.-A rare Boeing B-29 Superfortress flew into the Camarillo Airport. It's called Doc, like one of the seven dwarfs, and it helped the allies win WWII. The Southern California Wing of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - A World War II-era B-29 Superfortress plane is visiting the Ozarks all weekend. The plane named “Doc” is one of 1,644 B-29s built by Boeing during World War II. It is now one ...

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks ...

The plane is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The museum restored the plane's nose art and included a recreation of the Fat Man bomb. The National Museum of the ...

OGDEN — Ogden-Hinckley Airport is receiving a special World War II-era visitor this week. On Monday afternoon, “Doc” — one of only two airworthy B-29s — landed in Ogden as part of “The B-29 Doc ...