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The B-29s were powerful powers that could drop a lot of weapons onto targets below. Here is how they destroyed many homes and factories, in a long and punishing campaign. ....
The plane was redesignated from the B-29. Here s What You Need to Know: While the B-29 was responsible for the three deadliest bombing raids in history, its successor the B-50 never dropped a bomb in anger. Quiz time! Which secret American military project during World War II proved even more expensive than the $2 billion Manhattan Project which developed U.S. atomic bombs? That would be the $3 billion B-29 Superfortress the huge four-engine bomber designed to fly across huge distances and drop those atomic bombs. The silver-skinned B-29’s four huge turbo-supercharged R-3350 Duplex Cyclone radial engines allowed the 37-ton aircraft (when empty!) to fly relatively fast at 290 to 350 miles per hour and at altitudes exceeding 30,000 feet, making it extremely difficult for Japanese interceptors to catch up with them. ....
The Battle of Iwo Jima Was Costly but It Saved 2,400 B-29 Bomber Crews Capturing the Imperial Japanese island was brutal work, but it created an airfield for damanged Allied bombers to safely land. Key point: The cost and benefits of any campaign or battle are important to weigh. Here is one factor that is often forgotten when people think about the Battle of Iwo Jima. On February 19, 1945, thousands of American Marines hit the beaches on the Volcano Islands in the Pacific, starting what we call today the Battle of Iwo Jima. Taking the small island, encompassing only about eight square miles, required the commitment of 70,000 American fighting men and 26,000 casualties, over 6,800 of them killed. ....
Few aircraft have as great a mark on history. Here s What You Need to Know: Stalin instructed the Tupolev design bureau to abandon its own design program and instead make an exact copy of the B-29. Few aircraft have as great a mark on history as the B-29, the pencil-shaped American four-engine bomber that dropped the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What’s less well known is that the Soviet Union had its own B-29 as in, literally the same airplane, in all but a few respects. And like its American counterpart, this duplicate B-29 would deliver the Soviet Union’s first air-dropped nuclear weapon. ....