-
American post-war
military ****istance
programs loaned the RAF 87
Superfortresses, to
equip eight RAF
Bomber Command squadrons. The
aircraft was known...
- The
Boeing B-29
Superfortress is a
United States heavy bomber used by the
United States Army Air
Forces in the
Pacific Theatre during World War II, and...
-
intended to be used by the
Luftwaffe against raids by
USAAF Boeing B-29
Superfortresses. Work
started on the
design as the
Messerschmitt Me 155 in 1942, but...
- It was also the
target for the
first combat mission by
Boeing B-29
Superfortresses in June 1944.
Allied bombing raids on the Thai
capital city of Bangkok...
- The
Tupolev Tu-4, a
Soviet bomber built by
reverse engineering captured Boeing B-29
Superfortresses...
-
including a round-the-world
flight by specially-equipped
Boeing B-50
Superfortresses in 1948 and the
demonstration of the now-widely used 'probe and drogue'...
-
Bombing of
Tokyo by
Boeing B-29
Superfortresses with
firebombs on the
night of May 26, 1945....
- but the "all clear"
signal was
given at 08:30. When only two B-29
Superfortresses were
sighted at 10:53 ****anese Time (GMT+9), the ****anese apparently...
- Stratoliners, the
Boeing 377s, some of the
Boeing B-29
Superfortresses,
Boeing B-50
Superfortresses, B-47 Stratojets, B-52 Stratofortresses, and the initial...
- been lost to ****anese
aircraft flying out of the
Bonin Islands. The
Superfortresses largely found it
unnecessary to make any
major detour around the island...
